Entries associated with the tag "Patricia Wells":

"Enjoying Wine the Mark Phillips Way," Thursday from 6:30-9 PM at the Stan Mansion (2408 N. Kedzie), features wine, cheese, and "a fun, non-snobby way to enjoy wine" from wine expert and television host Mark Phillips. $40, reservations required. 

Patricia Wells signs her book, cowritten with her husband, Walter, We've Always Had Paris . . . and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France, Thursday from 4-5 PM at a free wine and cheese reception at the Book Cellar. She'll then move on to Kendall College, where she and her husband will read at the American Institute of Wine & Food's four-course benefit dinner from 6 to 9 PM. $100 (includes a signed copy of the book).

Friday at 7:30 PM at Barbara's Bookstore in Oak Park, George Motz discusses Hamburger America: One Man’s Cross-Country Odyssey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation, his roundup of what he considers the country’s 100 best burger joints. In both the book and his 2005 documentary of the same title, he seeks independents that have survived despite the rise of the fast-food nation. His Chicago picks? The Billy Goat Tavern and Top Notch Beefburger.

On Saturday the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Campbell Soup Company will team up on the country's largest one-day food drive, Stamp Out Hunger. They're asking people to put bags of nonperishable items next to their mailboxes, which mail carriers will pick up and deliver to a local food bank (in Chicago it'll be the Greater Chicago Food Depository). People can also donate online.

As part of the Chicago Public Library’s Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Bert Tan of the Chinese American Culture Foundation gives a lecture, The Art of the Chinese Tea Ceremony, Saturday at 2 PM at the North Austin branch library. (He’ll give the same presentation at the Galewood-Mont Clare branch library on 5/17 and the McKinley Park branch library on 5/31). Other programs coming up this month include Chinese Cooking Dim Sum, a cooking demonstration and tasting of shrimp and pork siu mai, and a Japanese cooking demonstration of sushi rice, California rolls, and teriyaki chicken, both by Andrew Comens.

Chefs Didier Steudler and Christophe Pouy from the Ritz Escoffier school of gastronomy in Paris will do a cooking demonstration at the Alliance Francaise on Wednesday from 6 to 9 PM. On the menu: roasted artichoke veloute with Parmesan Reggiano crisp, chicken supreme with an asparagus risotto and wild mushroom fricassee, and tangerine crepes with orange butter sauce. $75.

The Angelic Organics Learning Center explains the benefits of locally grown food Wednesday at 7 PM at Sulzer Regional branch library.

Wine Enthusiast presents Toast of the Town tonight at the Field Museum, featuring over 500 wines and 30 restaurants. The "Grand Tasting" is $95 and starts at 7:30.

Friday at 5:30 mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim conducts a free tasting of "market fresh fruit" cocktails at Fox & Obel, 401 E. Illinois. Call 312-410-7301.

Saturday the Oak Park Conservatory's annual herb sale starts at 8 AM at 615 Garfield Street. Call 708-386-4700.

Kid-centric eating org Purple Asparagus is presenting a pizza making class at Spacca Napoli, 1769 W. Sunnyside at 2:30 pm Saturday. Tickets are $42 for adults; $16 for kids 5 to 12; 4 and under are free.

At 10 am on Saturday the Culinary Historians of Chicago host Patricia Wells on "Sensory Delights of the French Garden" at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark. It's $10; call 708-788-0338 to reserve. Then on Sunday at 11 AM she'll sign copies of her new Vegetable Harvest: Vegetables at the Center of the Plate at Fox & Obel, 401 E. Illinois. Call 312-410-7301.

Saturday Beerfest comes to Navy Pier in two four-hour sessions starting at noon and 6 PM; all the beer you can drink from dozens of brewers for $47.50 at the door; $37.50 in advance. Later that night Three Floyds is hosting a kick off party for Gumballhead wheat beer at the Handlebar, 2311 W. North. Call 773-384-9546.

In Fine Spirits, 5418 N. Clark, presents the Andersonville Wine Walk, Sunday at 2 PM. $20 buys you a glass and 40 different wines. Call 773-728-7552.

Sunday at 5 Alpana Singh hosts a wine tasting to benefit Lifeline Theatre at Hotel Allegro, 171 West Randolph, Tickets are $100. Call 773-761-4477. 

Tuesday at NoMI in the Park Hyatt Chicago, 800 N. Michigan, sommelier Fernando Beteta conducts a "Women Winemakers from Around the World" tasting. It's at 5:30. Call 312-239-4030.

Also on Tuesday, at 7, chef Charlie Socher of Cafe Matou, 1846 N. Milwaukee, will be pairing dishes to wines of the Val de Loire. It's $62. Call 773-384-8911.