Our Mediterranean book club was a hit across the city!!
I will be running a food-centric book club that I think will really wow the crowd called Appetite for Reading! Here’s the info:
Do you have an appetite for reading? Do you read cookbooks like they’re novels? Do you buy food reference books, memoirs and anything that has to do with food and cooking?
Due to the success of the recent A Taste of the Mediterranean Book Club, I am launching Appetite For Reading: A Book Club for Serious Food Lovers.
We’ll read and savour 6 books about food – one a month for 6 months. Each month, we’ll meet in a carefully selected restaurant to discuss the book.
This exciting club allows you to participate in lively discussions about each book in a wonderful restaurant setting. We will of course also discuss food and restaurants over our meal! This is an interactive club, not a lecture, so come and enjoy the chance to have your opinions heard and share in other people’s impressions of the books we’ll be reading.
You will have the option of ordering from a special pre-fixe menu or off the restaurant’s regular menu. Each restaurant will be carefully selected to match the book of the month.
As a restaurant critic and food writer, I am passionate about food, books and restaurants and hope that you will join me on this adventure.
Surrounded by good food and people who love to get lost in great books, this is an experience that you won’t want to miss out on!
My mouth is watering already…
Stephanie Dickison
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Now available—A Taste if the China Seas Join now!
Here are the details:
Nicholas Hoare Presents – A Taste of the China Seas
In Japan, an explosion of cherry blossoms heralds early spring; in Toronto, spring is the start of celebration of the stories and flavours of East Asia, with Japan one of our six ports of call.
On March 23rd, Nicholas Hoare’s second series of reading and dining events, A Taste of the China Seas, will embark on a tour of this region from China to Malaysia, stopping in Japan, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand.
Our six evenings, from March through August, will be spent in some of Toronto’s most notable Asian restaurants sampling the cuisine and literature that captures the ethos of each country. Once again, our dinner discussions will be hosted by author and food writer, Stephanie Dickison (The 30 second Commute – ECW Press), as well as Nicholas Hoare booksellers Carolyn Lomax and Ben Walsh (alternating). Each restaurant will prepare a wonderful prix fixe menu especially for our group at a cost of $25.00.
The books for our tour have been carefully selected to provide pleasurable, evocative (and sometime provocative) reading, and to stimulate discussion. Our table will only be complete with your presence; please join us for our Asian literary feast.
Best wishes,
Carolyn Lomax and Ben Walsh
Two seatings available: Early 6—8 pm OR Late 8—10 pm
Price: $153.86 (includes all six books, membership fee and GST)
Membership is limited to 10 people per seating
To reserve your spot please contact our Front Street store at (416) 777-2665
Visit www.booksabroad.com for more details. Click on Taste
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