Author S.P. Grogan Promotes a Culinary Mystery
S.P. Grogan (pictured, center) debuted his new foodie travel mystery, Captain Cooked (Addison & Highsmith), at a recent signing at Borders in Las Vegas. The book’s plot features recipes from top chefs and restaurants on Hawaii. Grogan will donate part of the proceeds of the book sales to Hawaii’s Food Bank program. Pictured with Grogan are fans Barrett and Christy Adams.
Weber's New App
AppScout reviews Weber Grills' new iPad app, which is "more than some skimpy promotional app." Weber's on the Grill, $4.99, includes more than 250 triple-tested recipes from cookbooks such as Weber's Way to Grill, Weber's Real Grilling, and Weber's Charcoal Grilling--all of which were written by 2010 James Beard Award nominee Jamie Purviance. There are 27 videos, and users can keep their own notes right on the recipes.
Fix-It-And-Forget-It Takes Facebook
In April of 2010, Merle and Phyllis Good of Good Books--the house behind the mega-selling Fix-It-and-Forget-It Series--decided to dip their toes into social media and set up a Facebook fan page. What followed has surprised them and delighted their fans. Merle talks to the Huffington Post about the growth of their Facebook fans from 0 to 80,127 in less than three months.
A Foodie Book Club
The New Yorker's Book Club Confidential column recently checked in on The Brooklyn Kitchen's Foodie Book Club, wherein a staff member or two moderates the conversation, and each meeting is a potluck, with members encouraged to bring a dish that's thematically related to the book being discussed. This time, the book was American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) From America's Back Roads by Pascale Le Draoulec (Harper).
Rick Bayless Debuts Radio Show
Chef and cookbook author Rick Bayless (pictured, right) has a new show on SIRIUS XM’s Martha Stewart Living Radio, a five-week series called Fiesta at Rick’s (named for his new cookbook just out from W.W. Norton, Fiesta at Rick’s: Fabulous Food for Great Times with Friends). Bayless will take calls from listeners and share recipes and tips. Guests will include chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Art Smith, Tony-nominated actress Kelli O’Hara, as well as farmers and mixologists. Fiesta at Rick’s launched July 14 at 7:00 pm ET and will air every Wednesday on Martha Stewart Living Radio at 7:00 pm ET through August 11.
'USA Today' on 'I Hate to Cook'
Fifty years ago Peg Bracken sat down and did a revolutionary thing: she wrote a cookbook for women who hated to cook. She was on to something. It became an American classic. Three million copies later, the book is back with a 50th-anniverary edition, The I Hate to Cook Book: Updated and Revised (Grand Central, 224 pp., $22.99, on sale next Monday). USA Today has the story.
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