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Eat Their Words!

Eat Their Words is a food-focused book club featuring literature and memoirs written by chefs, foodies, and other food lovers, where the content of the book is curated into a culinary experience by various guest chefs and restauranteurs.

Each month, we will read a book and discuss it during an evening event where the book is brought to life through a custom food experience or special meal. Books, conversation, and meal included in your ticket price.

Eat Their Words is presented in partnership with Booked Evanston along with other phenomenal culinary collaborators, depending on what we’re reading and eating. 

2025 Schedule

February 10:
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *featuring food from Chef Toni Camphouse CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

March 10: Fried Green Tomatoes and the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg *featuring food by Chef JT Newman

April 14: Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki *featuring food by Chef Jennifer Axelsen

May 12: Mise En Place: Memoir of a Girl Chef by Marisa Mangani

June 9: A Bakery in Paris by Aimie K Runyan

July 14: What Is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall *featuring food by Chef JT Newman

August 11: Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver *featuring food by Chef JT Newman

September 8: Relish by Lucy Knisley

October 13: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath *featuring food by Chef JT Newman

November 10: The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

December 8: Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York Maître D by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina