KATHY WIELECH PATTERSON AND NEAL PATTERSON: BALTIMORE CHEF’S TABLE
ORIGINAL NORTHWOOD BOOK CLUB & THE IVY BOOKSHOP
Sunday, August 31, 2014 – 5:00pm
Join the Ivy in celebrating Baltimore’s best restaurants and eateries – and enjoying food featured in the book!
Event attendees are encouraged (but not required) to bring Baltimore-inspired finger food or beverages. If you are bringing a dish please inform Caroline Umana at lina7247@yahoo.comor 410-340-4809.
In the midst of recent growth and downtown development, Baltimore is breaking away from its culinary stereotypes and emerging as a city that attracts extraordinary restaurants and talented chefs. While embracing the local food movement, the city is now recognized for an expanding culinary movement. Newcomers and homegrown chefs alike are charming diners with delicious variations starring the perennial favorite, crab, as well as offering unique options like frankenfish tacos and hearts of palm crab cakes that are becoming the taste of Charm City.
With more than 80 recipes for the home cook from over 50 of the city’s most celebrated eateries and showcasing photos featuring mouthwatering dishes, famous chefs and lots of local flavor, Baltimore Chef’s Table is the ultimate gift and keepsake cookbook for both tourists and locals alike.
Kathy Wielech Patterson has written everything from auction catalogs and fine jewelry appraisals to reports on social welfare issues. It wasn’t until she started the food blog Minxeats.comthat she realized her true love was to write about food.
Neal Patterson, for many years a writer in the financial industry, is primarily a fiction writer. He’s contributed to the anthologies The Dead Walk! and Hey Kids, Comics!, and has written for the website Channel 37: Serial Science Fiction from the Distant Reaches of UHF.
Together, the Pattersons have written for local magazines, including Discover Baltimore and Towson Life, and online sites, including Sniffapalooza Magazine. They are also the authors of Food Lovers’ Guide to Baltimore.
