The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and Conversation

. Joanne Weir is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, international cooking teacher, restaurateur and renowned chef.  Joanne's passion for cooking was stoked by a legacy of life in the kitchen. A fourth-generation professional chef, Joanne's great-grandmother operated a restaurant in Boston at the turn of the century called Pilgrim's Pantry. This enthusiasm for food wa...

Cal Peternell is the New York Times bestselling author of Twelve Recipes, A Recipe for Cooking, and Almonds, Anchovies, and Pancetta. His newest book is Burnt Toast and Other Disasters, a guide for making things better. Cal’s drive to teach people the pleasure and satisfaction to be found cooking at home led him to co-create the Cooking By Ear podcast. Before that, Cal was the chef at Alice Waters...

Hi there! I'm Katie Quinn, I'm an author, food journalist, YouTuber, podcaster, and host. I create and present educational entertainment that brings truth to my theory: there's a story to be told everywhere, and I believe food connects people! Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France is available on Amazon.com you can purchase it at the link. htt...

JD Walker (Greensboro, NC) is the vice chancellor of the House of Akasha, a North Carolina pagan group. A former business journalist, she writes a weekly garden column for The Courier Tribune and she has contributed dozens of articles to Llewellyn's almanacs. 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...

This is an encore presentation Lisanna Wallance grew up in New York, attending Barnard College of Columbia University before moving to Paris. She was born with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that causes dysfunction throughout the body. When her symptoms suddenly worsened, she delved deeper into her passion for cooking as a way to help heal herself. She spent years experimenti...

Chocolate Maven Loyd Auerbach is a lifelong Foodist who got heavily involved in learning as much as he could about that dark stuff, Chocolate, in the early 2000s. This led him to begin conducting guided chocolate tasting sessions for audiences big and small and significant further research. While interviewing famed chocolatier Joseph Schmidt in San Francisco, it was suggested he learn to be a choc...

Laurel Woodward is a writer, gardener, and cook living a magickal life in the Pacific Northwest. She has written for magazines and ezines on the subjects of healthy living, organic gardening, sustainable living, and the magick of tapping into creative energy. Kitchen Witchery is her first book. Website http://laurelwoodward.com/ Blog :https://liminallandscapes.com/  ___________________ “Help...

We are back with the twisted Genius's of "Red Duke Games" to talk about their new book "Lovecraft cocktails" The authors (Mike Slater, Thomas Roache) and the illustrator (Kurt Komoda) behind the best-selling Necronomnomnom have summoned another glorious grimoire―this time featuring cursed cocktails. These boozy and punny recipes pay homage to Lovecraftian horror themes and monsters with titles suc...

Next week we have an exciting week of quests! we will have two NEW guests, as well as two ENCORE presentations! Monday October 25 Laurel Woodward (Kitchen Witchery) Tuesday October 26 Loyd Auerbach (Chocolate Expert/Paranormal Expert) Encore Presentation Wednesday October 27 Lisanna Wallance The Natural Witches Cookbook) Encore Presentation Friday October 28 J.D Walker (Witches Guide to Wildcrafti...

CLAUDIA CARTER Executive Director Carter is from Manta, Ecuador. She started her education in Buenos Aires, Argentina studying Food Engineering. She moved to the United States in 2008. She attended North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, ND where she completed her B.S. in Food Science (2010) and M.S. in Cereal Science (2014). While in school, she spent two years as a Food Technology Special...

My name is Beth Lee and I live in San Jose, California with my Dormant Chef husband, two arugula-loving kids, and a carrot-loving cockapoo named Scooby. In my first career, I told stories for Silicon Valley companies in printed words, pictures, and online. In 2010, I realized I’d rather talk about pita chips than memory chips. With a little tech support from my son, I star...

Rose Levy Beranbaum is an American baker, cookbook author and blogger. She pioneered the reverse creaming technique of cake-making. In this process, the fat and flour are mixed first before adding the remaining ingredients. By coating the flour in fat, gluten development is inhibited, helping to prevent toughness Rose has been called the “Diva of Desserts” and “the most meticulous cook who ever li...

Cook Once Dinner Fix: Quick and Exciting Ways to Transform Tonight's Dinner into Tomorrow's Feast by Cassy Joy Garcia ($30/Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, September 14, 2021) Never throw out your leftovers again with these delicious and healthy meals designed to transform into an entirely different dish the next night from best-selling author Cassy Joy Garcia. As a busy mom of two, Cassy Joy...

Tune in next week when I talk to Rose Levy Beranbaum (The Cake Bible, Rose's Ice Cream Bliss, Bread Bible) and Beth A Lee (The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook,OMG Yummy Website) it will be a great week and I really enjoyed getting to talk to both the authors about their work.___ Rose Levy Beranbaum has been called the “Diva of Desserts” and “the most meticulous cook who ever lived.” And add this...

Carrie Morey founded her handmade biscuit business in 2005 with the goal of making the tender, buttery, made-by-hand biscuits of her mother accessible across the country. Over 15 years later, Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit is widely recognized as an iconic Southern brand with national retail exposure, 4 grab-and-go eateries in Charleston, Atlanta, and Charlotte, a food truck, and a cult-like followin...

BAKING WITH DORIE: Sweet, Salty & Simple by Dorie Greenspan (on-sale October 19, 2021, Houghton Mifflin, $35/hardcover) Dorie Greenspan's name is synonymous with baking. The renowned author of thirteen cookbooks and winner of five James Beard and two IACP awards offers up a collection that celebrates the sweet, the savory, and the simple. Every recipe is signature Dorie: Easy and accessib...

Nick Malgieri, former Executive Pastry Chef at Windows on the World, is a 1996 inductee into Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. His latest book is a completely revised and updated edition of HOW TO BAKE (Dover Books, 2018) formerly published in 1995.  He is also the author of NICK MALGIERI'S PASTRY: FOOLPROOF RECIPES FOR THE HOME COOK (Kyle Books, 2014), which followed on the heels of...

Media professor Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator of 25 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 60 ebook titles. His western survival thriller, To Swallow the Earth, won a 2016 International Book Award, and his multicultural kids’ books have been lauded by Publisher’s Weekly , Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal . Raised in Silicon Valley,...

Next week on "The Well Seasoned Librarian Podcast" i'm going to be talking to Dorie Greenspan @doriegreenspan and Nick Malgieri @NMalgieri , I can't wait for you all to hear the two most wonderful conversations I've ever had!  Tune in Next week!

Patricia Joseph is a wife, mother of three sons and a daughter, writer, and web communications specialist. She is committed and passionate about building stronger families. She earned her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst.

Ashley's Bio: " I am a native from San Francisco, I’ve been juicing for 7 years. I started Liquified Juicery in 2018 and launched in 2020. Juicing is my passion and my mission is to heal other from the inside out the natural way." Liquified Juicery Welcome to Liquified Juicery where we believe in healing the mind, body, and soul the natural way. We provide fresh locally sourced organic ingredients...

Originally from Devon, Leticia Ann Clark trained at Leiths School of Food & Wine after a degree & Masters in English Literature. After graduating She worked in London restaurants (inc. Spring, The Dock Kitchen, Morito, Moro, Ellory-now-Leroy), as well as cooking for events, weddings, markets stalls and pop ups. In between kitchen jobs she worked in publishing at Bloomsbury, Profile, Slight...

Abbey Thiel is a food scientist, food blogger, and YouTuber. She is currently a researcher and lecturer at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Originally from Wisconsin, Abbey, received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied the microstructure of ice cream and whipped cream. In her free time, Abbey is busy FaceTiming her nieces and nephews back...

Paul Lebeau Bio Paul is a shareholder and Managing Director of the German company Wolfgang Mock, GmbH, located in the Frankfurt area. His mission in the grains and bread world began about six years ago, when he joined Wolfgang Mock’s decades-old campaign to get consumers milling their own grain. His accomplishments include the establishment of the Mockmill brand in baking circles around the globe...

I'm a writer and food expert who spent my formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, and managing restaurants. I write about delicious things, teach food writing classes, and might just spend all day at a market shopping for fruits and veggies. My memoir, Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen , debuted as Amazon's #1...