We plan on having some culinary fun with three top chefs and cookbook authors—each of whom influences the food world in her own way. Avid cyclist Joanne Chang is beloved for her Flour Bakery and restaurant Myers+Chang, which turns ten this year. To celebrate, Myers+Chang at Home: Recipes from the Beloved Boston Eatery combines recipes with gorgeous photos that are almost good enough to eat. Chang will share the stage with her coauthor and restaurant executive chef/partner Karen Akunowicz, whom the James Beard Foundation has nominated three times for best chef in the Northeast. Akunowicz also competed in Season 13 of Bravo’s TV series Top Chef and was included by Marie Claire magazine among “21 Badass Women Changing the Food World.” Finally, award-winning baker and Serious Eats editor Stella Parks is a CIA- (that’s Culinary Institute of America) trained pastry chef whose new cookbook, BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts, shares the secrets to baking classics like cherry pie, angel food cake, and lemon meringue pie. But also Snickers, Cracker Jack, and Fauxreos. The book is filled with food lore, photos of food, and vintage food ads, not to mention a forward by past BBF presenter Kenji Lopez-Alt. Come meet the cookbook authors, hear their stories, and salivate over their food photos. Your culinary host is Steve Holt, a food writer whose work has appeared in Boston Magazine, Edible Boston, and Best Food Writing 2011 and whose food politics writing appears at Civil Eats.
