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Sunday, October 11
 

7:30pm PDT

Out on the Table: Writers on Food with Garrett Schlichte
Sunday October 11, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Nosh Box
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Sponsored by Gazetteer SF
Co-presented with Kitchen Table Reading Series

Celebrating the upcoming release of Garrett Schlichte's debut collection of essays, Dinner Party Stories, the Kitchen Table reading series and curator Micheal Foulk bring Schlichte together with chef Gaby Maeda and writer Jennifer Barone to discuss food, writing, identity, and the secrets to living life as deliciously as possible. Hosted at Stephen Wade's delectable SOMA eatery, The Nosh Box. Doors at 7:00pm. 
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Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and construct thriving in Oakland, California. They are the curator and host of the film screening series Queer Film Theory 101 produced in collaboration with Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas with screenings across the country. Michea... Read More →
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Jennifer Barone

Jennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of four poetry collections, including Sirenland about the Bay of Naples, Italy, the siren mythology and stories of the sea, and Saporoso: Poems of Italian Food & Love, Feather Press. A two-time winner of th... Read More →
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Garrett Schlichte

Garrett Schlichte is an award-winning columnist, writer, and chef living in San Francisco. Garrett's work has appeared online and in print in The Washington Post, The New York Times, THEM, Jezebel, Slate, and other outlets. Garrett has worked in restaurants across the Bay Area fo... Read More →
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Gaby Maeda

Gaby Maeda is a Hawai'i born-and-raised chef in the Bay Area. She moved to San Francisco in 2008 to attend culinary school at California Culinary Academy. That led to an externship, which turned into a five-year stint at Restaurant Gary Danko where she worked every station and gained the fun... Read More →
Sunday October 11, 2026 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Nosh Box 1116 Folsom St, San Francisco
  Food, Pay What You Can
 
Thursday, October 15
 

6:30pm PDT

Ukraïne: Recipes and Stories from Kyiv to the Black Sea
Thursday October 15, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Omnivore Books on Food
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FREE

Co-presented with Omnivore Books on Food

Experience the joy and resilience of Ukrainian cuisine in a visually rich, travelogue-style cookbook filled with 100 traditional and modern recipes highlighting the comforting dishes, distinctive flavors, and time-honored techniques that make this food so extraordinary. Ukrainian chef Anna Voloshyna traveled across the diverse regions of her homeland―from the mountains to coastline, cities to grasslands, forests to wine country―collecting recipes, stories, and friendships to answer the question: What is Ukrainian cuisine? Joining Voloshyna on this appetizing and fascinating journey is Resy’s editor-in-chief, Paolo Lucchesi.

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Anna Voloshyna

Anna Voloshyna, chef, food stylist, and writer, was born and raised in Southern Ukraine and later immigrated to Oakland with her husband. She teaches cooking classes in the Bay Area and hosts pop-up dinners focusing on Ukrainian food. Her first cookbook, Budmo!, featuring family... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Omnivore Books on Food 3885a Cesar Chavez St, San Francisco, CA 94131
  Food, FREE
 
Thursday, October 22
 

6:00pm PDT

Fire, Earth, Air & Water: Nik Sharma on the Science of Better Cooking
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Book Society
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$30 Book Society Members / $45 General Public

Sponsored by Chronicle Books
Media sponsorship by Berkeleyside
Co-presented with Book Society

With books like Season and The Flavor Equation, award-winning cookbook author and America's Test Kitchen Editor in Residence Nik Sharma has earned a reputation for blending storytelling and science with recipes that are seasonal, reliable, and delicious. In his fourth cookbook, Fundamentals of Flavor: 100 Recipes for the Science of Better Cooking, this former molecular biologist shows home cooks how four elements—fire, earth, air, and water—shape the way we cook and taste. In conversation with food writer Soleil Ho, Sharma will lead an interactive evening in the spirit of a test kitchen: an intimate conversation with tastings of recipes from the book. Doors at 6:00pm. Ticket includes tastings and wine or a non-alcoholic beverage. $10 of each ticket supports Litquake.


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Soleil Ho

Soleil is an award-winning food and culture writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2025, they co-founded the COYOTE Media Collective, a worker-owned news outlet for the Bay Area.


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Nik Sharma

Nik is the bestselling author of cookbooks celebrated for blending culinary science with deeply personal storytelling: Season, The Flavour Equation, and Veg-Table. A former molecular biologist, Sharma brings a unique lens to the kitchen, where flavour is both a feeling and a formula... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Book Society 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
  Food
 
Friday, October 23
 

6:30pm PDT

Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors with Fuchsia Dunlop
Friday October 23, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Omnivore Books on Food
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Part of Words Around the World
Co-presented with Omnivore Books on Food

Over thousands of years, Chinese chefs have mastered how to combine the five tastes―sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and pungent―harmoniously in a dish. In her latest cookbook, Five Tastes, Fuchsia Dunlop shares with home cooks 120 easy recipes inspired by culinary traditions across China. She includes both old-fashioned favorites and her freshly invented dishes that combine Chinese flavors with produce found in any Western market or supermarket. Join us at Omnivore Books to meet this superstar of Chinese cuisine and learn about her processes for recipe research and development. In conversation with Harold McGee.


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Harold McGee

Harold McGee is the author of the award-winning books On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen and Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.
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Fuchsia Dunlop

Fuchsia Dunlop is a James Beard Award–winning food writer and cook specializing in Chinese cuisine. She trained as a chef at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in the 1990s and has been researching Chinese culinary culture ever since. Fuchsia is the author of eight books including, most... Read More →
Friday October 23, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Omnivore Books on Food 3885a Cesar Chavez St, San Francisco, CA 94131
  Food, FREE
 

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