An Evening with Julie & Julia – March 27, 2011, 5:00 PM

Looking for a great experience? If you are a foodie, this is one you will not want to miss…An Evening with Julie & Julia at the Historic Tidewater Inn to include:

A three-course dinner created from a menu selected by Amanda Hesser using recipes from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Amanda Hesser’s The Essential New York Times Cookbook. Recipes prepared by some of Talbot County’s finest chefs.

Julie & Julia film screening (1 hour and 35 minutes)
Questions and answers with Amanda Hesser and Julie Powell

The” Eventful Giving Committee” will share all proceeds with three local food banks: St. Vincent de Paul, St. Michaels Community Food Bank, and the Neighborhood Service Center.

Cost is $75 per person (tax deductible). Reservations can be made through the Mid-Shore Community Foundation’s website: mscf.org, by calling 410-820-8175 or by visiting the Talbot County Office of Tourism located at 11 S Harrison Street in Easton.

About our special guests:

Amanda Hesser has designed a seventeenth-century – style herb garden at a French Chateau, developed the Twitter app Plodt, and appeared in Julie & Julia, playing herself. She began her career as a kitchen runner and bread truck driver in college, then picked grapes in France, made pretzels in Germany, and cleaned rabbits in Italy. As a long time staffer at the New York Times, Hesser has written more than 750 stories, created the columns Food Diary and Recipe Redux, and was the food editor at the Times Magazine, where she launched T Living.

She has written the award-winning books Cooking for Mr. Latte and The Cook and Gardener, and edited the essay collection, Eat, Memory, based on a column she conceived for the Times Magazine. Her latest book is The Essential New York Times Cookbook. She is also the cofounder of food52.com. Hesser lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tad Friend, and their two children.

Julie Powell thrust herself from obscurity (and an uninspiring temp job) to cyber-celebrityhood when, in 2002 she embarked on an ambitious yearlong cooking (and blogging) expedition through all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She detailed the experience in her critically acclaimed 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir, Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in August 2009.

Julie has made appearances on national television shows and ABC’s Good morning America and CBS’s The Early Show to The Martha Stewart Show and Food Network’s Iron Chef America, and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including Bon Appétit, Food and Wine, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and more. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner in Journalism, was awarded an honorary degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and was the first ever winner of the Overall Lulu Blooker Prize for Books. Her highly anticipated second book, Cleaving was published in December 2009.