This month, Book Talks and Wine at South Stage Cellars takes place on Thursday, June 18, from 6:00-8:00pm at the Tasting Room at 125 South Third Street. Local author and culinary maven Tod Davies will read from her book Jam Today Too.
Warm, conversational, and exquisitely practical, Davies returns to the Jam Today series with Jam Today Too to share new recipes from her home kitchen—and stories about her experiences cooking for herself and her friends, family, and pets—during the best and worst of times. Whether she’s describing how she set up her kitchen in an RV after a flood, encouraging young feminists to try cooking a baked potato, adapting an M.F.K. Fisher recipe to create “the world’s simplest hollandaise sauce,” or singing the praises of her favorite local food purveyors, her infectious enthusiasm provides inspiration for everyone from trained chefs to those barely able to scramble an egg.
Tod Davies is the author of the cookbook/memoir Jam Today series: Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered and Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What You’ve Got, as well as The History of Arcadia series of fairy tales from another world: Snotty Saves the Day, Lily the Silent, and the upcoming The Lizard Princess (November 2015, Exterminating Angel Press). Unsurprisingly, her attitude toward literature is the same as her attitude toward cooking—it’s all about working with what you have to find new ways of looking and new ways of being. She lives with her husband, the filmmaker Alex Cox, and their two dogs Gray and Pearl, in the alpine valley of Colestin, Oregon.
This monthly series featuring authors from The State of Jefferson is perfect for book lovers to gather and meet local literati while enjoying wine and appetizers at one of the Rogue Valley’s premier wine venues. Admission is free.