Birmingham Public Library (Alabama)
Friday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. Central Library The library's popular Bards & Brews monthly poetry performance and beer-tasting event is packed with activities on this night. Chef Corey Hinkel of MIX Bakery and Cafe in downtown Birmingham and Yellow Moon Cheese Company in Alexandria, Alabama, talks about beer, bread, and his homemade cheeses. Beer and cheese pairings have been a growing trend through the years, and Hinkel’s tips will put you in the know. Also, Chef Chris Dupont of MIX Bakery a...
Friday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. Central Library The library's popular Bards & Brews monthly poetry performance and beer-tasting event is packed with activities on this night. Chef Corey Hinkel of MIX Bakery and Cafe in downtown Birmingham and Yellow Moon Cheese Company in Alexandria, Alabama, talks about beer, bread, and his homemade cheeses. Beer and cheese pairings have been a growing trend through the years, and Hinkel’s tips will put you in the know. Also, Chef Chris Dupont of MIX Bakery a...
The Reflections, a band made up of BPL library employees, perform at Bards & Brews. Friday, September 14, 6:30 p.m. BPL- Central Library The library's popular Bards & Brews monthly poetry performance and beer-tasting event packed with activities on this night. Beer and cheese pairings have been a growing trend through the years, and Hinkel’s tips put you in the know. Also, Chef Chris Dupont of MIX Bakery and Cafe and Cafe Dupont prepares appetizers, using ingredients donated by Whole Foods Mar...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Time: 7:00 p.m. Desert Island Supply Co. Food Stories Participants have five minutes to tell a true, personal story about food. No notes are allowed in this challenge, known as "Food Stories.'' Participants tell stories that will leave an audience laughing. This entertaining presentation is modeled after National Public Radio's "The Moth.'' Mafiaoza’s of Crestline Village provides refreshments.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Time: 7:00 p.m. Desert Island Supply Co. Food Stories Participants have five minutes to tell a true, personal story about food. No notes are allowed in this challenge, known as "Food Stories.'' Participants tell stories that will leave an audience laughing. This entertaining presentation is modeled after National Public Radio's "The Moth.'' Mafiaoza’s of Crestline Village provides refreshments.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Time: 7:00 p.m. Desert Island Supply Co. Food Stories Participants have five minutes to tell a true, personal story about food. No notes are allowed in this challenge, known as "Food Stories.'' Participants tell stories that will leave an audience laughing. This entertaining presentation is modeled after National Public Radio's "The Moth.'' Mafiaoza’s of Crestline Village provides refreshments.
Birmingham Foodie Book Club Presents The World in a Skillet by Paul and Angela Knipple Memphis couple Paul and Angela Knipple discuss their book "The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South,'' which focuses on restaurants run by first-generation immigrants in the South. Mr. Chen's Authentic Chinese Cooking of Hoover is in the book and caters the event. The Birmingham Foodie Book Club presents the event. (The Knipples’ book available for purchase.)- Tuesday, September ...
West End Branch Library of the Birmingham Public Library is 100 years old. Happy Anniversary, West End Library! Here's to 100 more years of serving the West End area and surrounding community.
Tuesday, September 11 Time 6:00 p.m. Birmingham Public Library, Central Birmingham Foodie Book Club Presents The World in a Skillet by Paul and Angela Knipple Memphis couple Paul and Angela Knipple discuss their book "The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South,'' which focuses on restaurants run by first-generation immigrants in the South. Mr. Chen's Authentic Chinese Cooking of Hoover is in the book and caters the event. The Birmingham Foodie Book Club presents the ...
On opening night of the Eat Drink Read Write Festival, Foodies Book Club hosts a discussion of the book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. The author, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook, leads the discussion. The book examines how and why commodity tomatoes came to be nothing more than potentially poisonous and unappealing stand-ins for the real thing and exposes the human and environmental costs associated with the $10 billion fresh tom...
