On Monday June 2nd & Tuesday June 3rd, we welcome you to join us for our third Read | Eat | Drink book pairing dinner, where we create a four course set menu centered around a book from our friends and neighbours at Daisy Chain Book Co.
June will feature one of hospitality’s most admired personalities, Anthony Bourdain, with his first book “Kitchen Confidential”.
Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.
This deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, lays out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine.
The menu will be a nod to some of Bourdain’s signature dishes, along with inspiration from our own core food memories. The evening includes a private shopping party at Daisy Chain, a four course dinner, reception cocktail, and a reading of favourite snippets from the book. The cost per person is $80 + GST.
$5 from every ticket sold will be donated to In The Weds YEG, a non-profit organization created after the sudden death of Bourdain in June 2018 - with the goal of improving mental health in Edmonton’s Hospitality Community.
We hope to see you there!
PS- Bourdain’s book is available at Daisy Chain Book co, and you’ll receive a voucher for a free loaf of sourdough if you purchase from this local gem :)
