Nina Barrett, an award-winning food writer who recently won a James Beard Award in the category of show / audio webcast, will be joining Friends of Evanston Farmers’ Markets for a cooking demonstration this coming Saturday.
Nina hosts Fear of Frying, a broadcast by WBEZ 91.5, Chicago’s National Public Radio affiliate station, explores the fears we have of cooking. She has been a journalist and author for 20 years, and has a professional chef’s degree from Le Cordon Bleu.
This week, Nina will be visiting the friends’ tent and said she plans on informing “farmers’ market customers about cookbooks and specific recipes that can help them enjoy the produce [that] they find at the market.”
“My focus will be on four specific recipes from four specific cookbooks I will bring with me to talk about with people, which will allow them to make a wonderful four-course meal, perfect for family, home entertaining, or summer picnics,” said Nina, who is also the owner of Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston’s new independent bookstore at the site of the former Bookman’s Alley.
The four books and recipes she plans on talking about are the following:
Jerusalem, by Yotam Ottolenghi-Pureed beets with Yogurt and Za’atar
Plenty More, by Yotam Ottolenghi-Cauliflower Cake
The Heart of the Plate, by Mollie Katzen-Slaws Beyond “Cole”
The New Elegant But Easy Cookbook, by Marian Burros and Lois Levine-Plum Torte
Besides giving tent visitors tips on making these dishes, Nina will be giving out a farmers’ market shopping list for the farmers’ market ingredients that go into these dishes and a 10% off coupon for these and any other cookbook at Bookends & Beginnings, valid this Saturday and Sunday (July 11 & 12).
