Litquake’s “Lit Fest” at Eat Real Festival | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Kick off  the 2011 Eat Real Festival in Oakland Oakland by getting lit.

Litquake is putting together a smörgåsbord of storytelling, with food travel adventures, tales of old-time food fun, and more as Northern California’s best food writers and storytellers gather for a feast of spoken word.  Emceed by Jan Newberry, food and wine editor for San Francisco Magazine.

Lit Fest Panel

• Andrew Beahrs is the author of Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens. His writing on food and history has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Gastronomica, and other publications.
• Steven Gdula is the author of Gobba Gobba Hey: A Gob Cook Book. His previous book, The Warmest Room in the House, was a Chicago Tribune top pick for 2008. He lives – and eats and drinks and writes and bakes – in San Francisco.
• Don George, award-winning travel writer, is the author of Travel Writing and the editor of seven anthologies, including A Moveable Feast and The Kindness of Strangers.
• Jere Gettle, called “the Indiana Jones of seeds” by The New York Times, is the author of The Heirloom Life Gardener and owner of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company.
• Jennifer Reese, author of Bake the Bread, Buy the Butter, has written for Food & Wine, Saveur, Salon, and The New York Times Book Review and was the book critic for Entertainment Weekly. She was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Where: Master Craft Stage
When: 6:00pm Friday September 23rd

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