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Cook the Book! Online

Cook the Book! Online

Cook the Book! is a monthly meeting of cooking enthusiasts who share their experiences after trying recipes from the same cookbook, author or website.

Cookbook choice for August is How to cook everything : simple recipes for great food by Bittman, Mark. (2019 Edition) . Click here to place a HOLD.

 Adults. (R)  

A Zoom invitation will be emailed to registrants after 4 p.m. on August 16, 2021.

 

Date:
Monday, August 16, 2021
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Library Branch:
George Mason Regional Library
Categories:
Book Discussion Make/Create > Cooking
Audience:
  Adults     Older Adults  
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Mark Bittman is the author of 30 books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food journalist and columnist, opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and stayed for 30 years. 

Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is a longtime TODAY regular and has made hundreds of television, radio, and podcast appearances, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, RealTime with Bill Maher, and CBS’s The Dish; plus NPR’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition

Bittman has written for countless publications and spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk, “What’s wrong with what we eat,” has almost five million views. He was distinguished fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has received six James Beard Awards and an IACP Award. 

Bittman is currently Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series called Food, Public Health, and Social Justice. He is also the editor-in-chief of Heated, and is working on a book and television series titled Animal Vegetable Junk. His latest book, with David Katz, MD, is How to Eat. (From www.markbittman.com) 

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