The Kitchen Conservancy in St. Louis is doing a food book club event for their Novel Cuisine program on Appetite for America, August 22. You discuss the book and then eat dishes from it. Sounds delicious!

Here’s the info
Novel Cuisine: Appetite For America-class
Kitchen Conservatory
Sun 22nd Aug 2010
01:00:00 PM- 03:30:00 PM
Anne Cori
Kitchen Conservatory Staff

NOVEL CUISINE: APPETITE FOR AMERICA
NOVEL CUISINE – A BOOK CLUB FOR FOOD LOVERS! Fully experience some delicious books on food and cooking by reading them first and then enjoying food from the books. Join us in a fun afternoon; the class gets to be both book and food critic at once. All books in this monthly series are available at Kitchen Conservatory.
Learn how visionary businessman and food missionary Fred Harvey built a restaurant empire starting in 1880 in this social history, Appetite for America, written by Stephen Fried. Dine on these Harvey recipes: cream of cheese soup, crab and shrimp in ramekins, St. Louis cauliflower, stuffed bell peppers, and French apple pie with nutmeg sauce. Demonstration

$40.00 Per Person
Cancellation Policy:
Classes are filled on first-come basis.
Payment must be made at the time of registration.
Register online, in person at our store, or mail list of classes you want with your name and your telephone number.
Also register by phone: (314)-862-COOK (2665).
Send payment to KITCHEN CONSERVATORY, 8021 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO 63117. http://www.kitchenconservatory.com/

Here’s Fred himself in St. Louis, in the early 1860s, looking like he could use a good meal.

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