From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Riverview Cafe, I’ll be in conversation with Keefe Keeley of Savanna Institute and Odessa Piper, chef, pioneer in farm to table cooking and now associated with Taliesin’s Food Artisan Immersion Program.

A Midwest foodie book tour without a stop in Madison Wisconsin is unthinkable. Lucky me. I’m being hosted by Garver Events for a public event at Garver Feed Mill and book sales will be supported by Leopold’s of Madison. Drinks, snacks, a reading- all the good stuff on Friday night the 8th. Here is the link to my event.

Jason Hammel, chef owner of Lula Cafe and long time supporter of local farms along with Chandra Ram, former editor-in-chief of Plate Magazine will join me for a discussion about the enduring joys of cooking with the seasons and what the future holds for restaurants in this new pandemic world. This is a ticketed event for vaccinated attendees. Books will be on sale at the event.

My first stop on a sweep through the Midwest will be at Gramercy Books, chatting with Amy Bodiker Baskes, an old friend and a deep thinker about food and ag issues. This is a ticketed event and open to all (vaccinated) lovers of food and books. Signing post-conversation

This is the inaugural live reading in Paige Lipari’s new digs! Kate Lebo, author of The Book of Difficult Fruit and I will be volleying questions and comments about how our books both weave natural science, cooking and memoir into interesting personal journeys. The $5 entry includes one of Paige’s delicious signature arancine and what I promise will be a fun conversation.

Riding my bicycle solo from New Jersey to Stockbridge at age 14 earned the Berkshires a permanent place in my heart. This reading at the Hillsdale General Store brings it full circle (although travel is by car this time). I’ll demonstrate my recipe from the book for “this sauce is the pits”, serve it with a piece of stone fruit tart and read an excerpt or two. Proof of vaccination required. Details here. The purchase of a $30 ticket includes a signed copy.

Mark Firth and his team will be making garden herb Negronis, crostini platters will abound. Ruth Reichl and I will talk about restaurants past, present, and future. Guaranteed good time out on the patio!

Savoy lives on in certain houses across the city and Huertas is certainly one of them. Jonah Miller, former Savoy and Back Forty cook is hosting a very Savoy-ish event—wines generously poured by Elevation Wines partner (and former Savoy general manager) Gil Avital, with accompanying Huertas riffs on ingredients and recipes described in the book. Jonah and I will converse about cooking, running restaurants in this pivotal moment and celebrate the September bounty of the market. Limited ticket availability. Tickets are $40 including food and drink.

When Two Books Go Walking

Push through your Zoom fatigue; this one is going to be special. I am teaming up with Kate Lebo, author of The Book of Difficult Fruit and we’ll facilitate a conversation between our two books. Both blend memoir, natural science and cooking, as if companion travelers. In tandem, they are far greater than the sum of their parts. A virtual affair.

Watchung Booksellers

The Savoy diaspora sent folks out into many New York counties, Queens among them. Michael Fuquay’s, The Queensboro has won the hearts of the Jackson Heights community and I am thrilled to be making an appearance there. The Q team will be preparing Savoy small plates for purchase, shaking some classic Back Forty cocktails. I’ll read choice bits from the book and sign copies. Reservations are recommended. Should be a good time!

The Queensboro

At 6PM, John Fraser’s new café and provisions shop, Southold General, will turn into a gelato cocktail party. I’ll be on the patio, read a short excerpt, sign copies of the book all while balancing a dripping cone in one hand.

Southold General

Drop by Carol Festa and Tom Geppel’s beautiful 8 Hands Farm on Saturday morning. I’ll be signing books and enjoying the pinnacle crossover moment of summer into fall, when tomatoes and squashes, peppers and peaches, shell beans and string beans can be paired for stellar meals. 

7PM virtual  conversation with Amanda Cohen, chef owner of Dirt Candy

I’ll be having a conversation with Amanda Cohen, chef owner of Dirt Candy, the all vegetable restaurant on the Lower East Side. Can a restaurant be a driver of social change? What does sustainable mean to us today? In the kitchen, at the stove how do we think about creating a delicious plate?

https://www.mofad.org/events/2021/0713/whatsgood

David and Cathy Lilburne have started hosting their Friday night gatherings on the porch again. In collaboration with Dolly’s, their restaurant neighbor, they’ll be hosting a signing and conversation with Dolly’s chef/owner Shelley Boris (and long time friend of mine). It’s a full moon. Come on out!

Antipodean Books, Garrison NY

https://www.antipodean.com

Celebrate Father’s Day. I’ll sign personalized copies for your dad and point you to the chapter about mine, his annoying idiosyncrasies and the culinary gift he bestowed on me.

https://www.grownyc.orggreenmarket/brooklyn/carroll-gardens

Move over, Manhattan. Grand Army has some of the best Greenmarket growers I know. I’m looking forward to seeing lots of my Park Slope and Prospect Heights friends.

https://www.grownyc.orggreenmarket/brooklyn-grand-army-plaza

The Venn diagram of Savoy and McNally Jackson customers is a very robust intersection. In my second bookstore swing by, I’ll be outside the store on those wonderful blue benches underneath the sliver elm trees from the late afternoon into early evening. Sarah, Marty and the gang will have plenty of books on hand.

https://vimeo.com/557239117

52 Prince St.

Casual and informal. Andrew and his team will be serving their usual fine selection of natural wines, I’ll be signing books, hanging out and maybe if we’re lucky Caroline will make a couple of her amazing potato tortillas that never fail to keep us coming back for another splash in the glass.

81 Broadway Brooklyn NY

Virtual conversation with Adam Gopnik 6PM

Adam and I are going to shop earlier in the day at the Union Square Greenmarket and return to our respective kitchens with our quarries and discuss what we each are making for dinner as well as our shared love of what’s good: New York City, honing our craft and good friends around the dinner table.

https://www.92y.org/event/peterhoffman-and-adam-gopnik

Union Square is my zocolo, where so much of the book occurs and chock full of growers who taught me so much of what’s in the book. There is no farmers market like it. Come for the book, stay for the verve.

https://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/manhattan-union-square-

Currently in temporary digs on West 10th St, Three Lives is the place where I’ve bought more books suggested by employees than ones I found on my own. The quintessential home of the enlightened browse. In-store events are still a few months out, so I’ll be sitting outside the shop signing books and hanging out for a few hours. Come by and say hello. Signed copies will be available at the shop starting on the 8th.

https://vimeo.com/557239402

238 W 10th St, New York, NY 10014

A conversation with Molly Wizenberg

Molly is the author of several well-received food memoirs and another former restaurant owner. We’ll be comparing notes on being recovering restaurateurs, the memoir writing process and whatever sparked her interest in What’s Good?

8pm EST

5pm PST

https://www.booklarder.com/events/info/virtual-author-talk-whats-good

All Of It with Alison Stewart WNYC live 93.9 FM

My debut radio spot as the book drops

WNYC LINK

Slow Food and Slow Food NYC in particular has long championed food grown or cooked with respect for the planet and the people making that food. Cathy Erway and I will be talking about our shared values and love of home cooking and big flavors. By attending this virtual event you can order a personalized signed copy of the book to be mailed to you.

Zoom Link:

http://www.slowfoodnyc.org/events/2021/5/12/art-of-slow-eating