Greg’s back on San Juan Island….
Posted November 2, 2011 at 11:57 pm by Ian Byington
Greg will be appearing at Griffin Bay on Saturday, after cooking for the Whale Museum's fundraiser on Friday night....
It’s a special event this weekend at the bookstore – here’s more from Nancy Larsen:
Griffin Bay Bookstore takes special pleasure in announcing an evening with Greg Atkinson, former San Juan Island chef and a long time proponent of local and Northwest foods and cooking.
Greg will be on hand at Griffin Bay Bookstore Saturday night, November 5, 7:00 pm to sign and talk about his latest book At the Kitchen Table: The Craft of Cooking at Home, a wonderful opportunity for food aficionados, cookbook lovers, and those familiar with Greg’s scrumptious meals and recipes to hear first hand from an accomplished chef who is also a gifted writer.
A longtime contributor to The Journal of the San Juans, Greg not only explores the power of food in At the Kitchen Table but the meaning of coming together at the table, as well as the pleasures of home cooking. Each of the two-dozen essays ends with several related recipes.
Whether harvesting shellfish with fishermen in Puget Sound or walking the rows during harvest at Oregon vineyards, Greg measures these meals by how memorably they bring people together rather than the pedigree of the olive oil used.
In warm and eloquent prose, Greg brings memorable meals to life and reveals tips and tidbits on cooking garnered from the food royalty that have passed through his kitchen. At the Kitchen Table is about the meaning behind eating, the culinary web we enter with every bite we take, and the special sanctuary that is the home kitchen.
This is sure to be a memorable event – don’t miss it!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greg Atkinson is a regular contributor to The Seattle Times and a food commentator on Seattle’s public radio station KUOW. He is the author of In Season: Culinary Adventures of a San Juan Island Chef, Entertaining in the Northwest Style, Northwest Essentials, and West Coast Cooking. In early 2012 Greg will open Restaurant Marche on Bainbridge Island, where he now resides.
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