The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and Conversation

Bio: I call myself a “Storyteller Cook”, because everything I do is to do with  cooking and telling stories through the medium of food. I want to inspire the world to cook and eat more Polish food. I have written a cookbook “Polska” – a love letter to the country where I was born – that has been published in the UK, America, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. Since writing this b...

Bio: Adrian received an A.B in International Relations from Stanford University in 1991, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995.  From 1999 to 2001, Miller served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton with his Initiative for One America – the first free-standing office in the White House to address issues of racial, religious and ethnic reconciliation. Miller...

Bio I’ve always loved the sights and smells of the kitchen. My mother was (and is) an excellent cook, and as a kid, I was her little shadow as she prepared supper each night. From her, I gained a deep, abiding love for magically transforming pantry items into mouth-watering family meals. I wanted to be a flavor scientist, But I also had a long and torrid affair with chemically-enhanced, laboratory...

Catherine McBride is a Food Writer, author of "The Fresh Cornbread Newsletter" and former Chef as Chez Panisse in Berkeley. http://catherinemcbride.net/about-me/ Fresh Corn Newsletter https://cornbread.substack.com/ If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I’m on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts 🎉☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wellseasonedlib “Hel...

Bio/Book info Nina G is a comedian, professional speaker and author of  Stutterer Interrupted . She has been featured in/on everything from NPR's 51%, BBC's Ouch, Psychology Today, Tedx, multiple day time talk shows, Howard (Stern) 100 News and even the Stuttering John Podcast. Nina shares her wit and wisdom with corporations, colleges, libraries, conferences, and community events. Her no non...

Bio Victoria Slind-Flor has been a journalist since the early 1970s. In the course of her career she has worked for the Bellevue American (now the Eastside Journal), the West Bank Guide, New Orleans Business, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Recorder,  National Law Journal, American Lawyer, Intellectual Property Law and Business, the American Bar Association Journal, Intellectual Asset Mana...

A best seller on Amazon , with a five- star rating and rave reviews, Brownies for Breakfast is   a  cookbook you’ll actually enjoy reading and using . Frank, complete, simple: favorite sweets and comfort foods, reimagined as whole food, plant-based, sugar-free, low-carb, dairy-free, gluten-free classics. Beautiful graphics and photos, nutrition facts for every recipe, plus a great, fun r...

We are on a Winter Break, but will be back in the new year. Next year we will feature.. If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I’m on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts 🎉☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wellseasonedlib “Help us promote this podcast and share this episode with a friend” “Share on social and tag us at @WellLibrarian” “Follow The Well...

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We are going to have return guests on a panel to talk about the year and to discuss thier work.   * Terry Barr. Terry is a thrice-nominated Pushcart Prize essayist originally from Bessemer, Al. His essay collections--Don't Date Baptists, We Might As Well Eat, and Secrets I'm Dying to Tell You are published by Red Hawk Publications and available on Amazon * Melissa A. Matthews is a first-...

Today we are having our first ever Panel Show, we are having some return authors such as  * Laurel Woodward (Kitchen Witchery), http://laurelwoodward.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Witchery-Unlocking-Everyday-Ingredients/dp/0738767840/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3OZ0PKD81E20E&keywords=kitchen+witchery&qid=1640027180&sprefix=kitchen+witchery%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-3 * J.D Walker (Witches Gu...

Julia Halina Hadas is a practicing witch and avid craft cocktail fanatic and bartender. Having worked at a distillery and as a craft cocktail bartender in the San Francisco Bay Area, she combined her love of the craft cocktail movement with her witchcraft practice. She holds a BA in anthropology, and is a certified crystal healer, shamanic, and reiki practitioner. You can learn more at her blog,&n...

Kirsten Ismene Schilling: Bio for Arabesque Aromas and Arabesque Press An artist, author, and art historian, I received my BA in art history from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, with honors, in 1996. I began researching plant folklore, medieval herbals, and Renaissance-era aromatics in 1999 with a burning desire to smell history. Upon recreating my...

Mario López-Goicoechea is a Cuban-born, London-based writer and blogger who has lived in the British capital since 1997. His success as a blogger merited his inclusion in the first anthology of Cuban bloggers called Buena Vista Social Blog (editor, Beatriz Calvo Peña) in 2010. In 2012, Mario published three separate essays on the centenary of Cuba’s foremost playwright, poet, essayist and short st...

Bio Jamie Schler is an award-winning writer specializing in food and culture, her stories inspired by her multi-cultural family and 30 years living between France and Italy completely and irrevocably immersed in the culture. After working as an art gallery manager in New York, a milliner in Milan, and a culinary guide and interpreter in Paris, Jamie decided to focus her passions and energy on writ...

Reyshan Parker is a Writer, Filmmaker, Producer, Television Personality, and Comedian. He has a podcast and TV show called "Beyond the Check" where he talks to the people of the food industry. If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I’m on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts 🎉☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wellseasonedlib “Help us promote this podca...

Am I a home cook with higher aspirations or a foodie who also appreciates that sometimes simpler is better? I don't know, but I do know I like to share what I cook and what I know. I've been a writer, journalist, public relations professional and marketing consultant. I like to travel and I ALWAYS have an opinion or at least a point of view. Email me at clickblogappetit AT gmail DOT comInterestsCo...

Taffy Elrod is a chef, cooking instructor, and food writer based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Originally from the Southeastern Michigan, she cooked professionally and taught cooking in New York City and the tri-state area for fifteen years before relocating to the Hudson Valley to open a pizzeria restaurant with her husband, where they built a dedicated following for their traditional, homestyle c...

Celia Sack was born and raised in San Francisco. During her seven-year tenure at Pacific Book Auction, Sack channeled her passion for rare books into a private antiquarian cookbook collection, and then into a bookshop. Since November 2008, when she opened Omnivore Books on Food in Noe Valley, Sack has gotten to know Alice Waters' tastes (books on victory gardens, not surprisingly), has enticed Rut...

Sarah Soward is an artist with a focus on endangered wildlife and color. She holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts ( view her art C.V. ). She shows and competes internationally. Some highlights of her career include the acquisition of a painting by the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs, acceptance of her work into the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 ,  2015, and 2017 exh...

Emily Winston Bio (From the website) Hi, I'm Emily.  Growing up in suburban NJ, there were plenty of good bagels around.  But when my father had business take him to the Upper West Side, he would stop by Zabar's for lox, sable, whitefish, and chive cream cheese, and H&H for bagels, which we would have as a special treat.  These bagels were on a whole different level of unique de...

Cenk Sönmezsoy (pronounced jenk sun-mass-soy) is an author, blogger, photographer, and food stylist based in Istanbul. After graduating from college, he moved to San Francisco, where he earned an MBA from the University of San Francisco and worked at a high-tech PR agency. On realizing that he’d rather eat glass than sit through another client conference call discussing another “groundbreaking” pr...

JP McMahonJP McMahon is a chef, restaurateur and author. He is culinary director of the EatGalwayRestaurant Group, which comprises of Michelin-starred AniarRestaurant, award-winningSpanish restaurant Cava Bodega, and Tartare Café &Wine Bar (Bib Gourmand). He also runsthe Aniar Boutique Cookery School. JP is committed to the educational and ethical aspects offood, to buying and supporting the b...

Christy Denney is the author of the popular food blog "The Girl Who Ate Everything", which is filled with a wide-variety of tried-and-true recipes. Her test kitchen now includes her five children and her husband, who played thirteen years in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins. The Girl who ate Everything Blog: https://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/ Scrumptious is available on https://deseretboo...

Darra Goldstein is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita at Williams College and Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture , named the 2012 Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation. She has published widely on literature, culture, art, and cuisine and has organized several exhibitions, including Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age an...