With Ina Pinkney at the Union League Club

Several live events in the last month—Ina Pinkney led a Q&A at the Union League Club to a very appreciative audience of food fans…

I also appeared at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee with Kyle Cherek, host of the NPR podcast Classic Eats, which I was on this month—listen to it here.

By the way, do you need an autographed copy? I just delivered a bunch to J.P. Graziano Grocery—as seen here with Jim Graziano, who paints a very vivid picture of Randolph Street before Jerry Kleiner, Girl & the Goat and so on in Chapter 10.

Another media appearance—this one was published in the Northwest (Indiana) Times earlier in May, but I just saw it.

But the biggest event was at Carrie Nahabedian’s Brindille, to an audience of around 60 who filled the place. Carrie is a key figure in the early chapters, having worked at the Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton, Le Francais, and Gordon Sinclair’s Sinclair’s in Lake Forest, with a kid named Chuck Trotter in his first real restaurant job. She put on a great spread (with an assist by Sarah Stegner) and invited a bunch of chefs. So it was a big crowd of people who are in the book, from chefs like Kevin Hickey, Michael Foley and Jason Hammel to guests including Maggie Trboyevic, Anne (Trotter) Hinkamp and Carol Mighton Haddix, with a Q&A led by another person in the book—Monica Eng. A really warm, sweet event. Here’s a few more folks who came out for it:

Penny Pollack, Phil Vettel and Ina Pinkney.