Cookbook Love is a conversation between two women who share a life-time love for cookbooks.
It is an attempt to understand the magnetic attraction many of us experience for cookbooks, from the quiet seduction in the bookstore or online to the steady, compulsive, co-dependent relationship that develops with the author as the book is read and cooked from.
We all have a cookbook lover in our lives. They are the ones who head straight to the 'Cooking' section when they enter a bookshop, follow hundreds of cookbook authors on the 'gram, read cookbooks like novels, defy gravity with the vertiginous piles of cookbooks stacked all over the house and are repeatedly told they have too many cookbooks.
Cookbook Love includes Emiko and Barbara's observations on books, reading and cooking; a little history; tales of fascinating cooks and books through time; and a few insights into their own affliction (How do you feel about colour coding cookbooks on bookshelves?) And, they will attempt to address the thorny question of how many cookbooks is too many.
Both presenters are professional cookbook lovers: Emiko as author of seven cookbooks – and working on her eighth – and Barbara as food writer, and now, dealer in recycled vintage, out-of-print, and not-quite antiquarian cookbooks.
Dates & Times
- Sat 16 May 2pm–4pm
Accessibility
- Actively welcomes people with access needs.
When
16 May
2pm–4pm
Price
$45 per person
