Celebration of the Book
BAROLO: A Craft Reading from the Food-and-Wine Memoir
Matthew Gavin Frank
Tuesday, November 2 | 7:00 pm
Main Library | 111 Library Street NE | Ryerson Auditorium
Matthew Gavin Frank, a fifteen-year veteran of the food-and-wine industry, researched Barolo by spending six months in Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), living out of a tent in the garden of the local Pittatore farmhouse. Through the Pittatore family, he was able to secure work picking wine grapes for famed vintner Luciano Sandrone. Through Sandrone, Frank developed relationships with the region's families, restaurateurs, butchers, vintners, local foodstuffs, odd markets, and circus-like atmosphere in experiences both gustatory and flamboyant. Frank will read from his book and discuss the inspiration and stories behind certain scenes, why certain portions were written in a certain way, and the strange process by which he pieced the manuscript together.
Ask the Wine Guy
Joe Borrello
Tuesday, November 2 | 8:00 pm
Main Library | 111 Library Street NE | Ryerson Auditorium
Immediately following Frank's presentation, Joe Borrello, president of Tasters Guild International and author of Ask the Wine Guy: (Everything You Wanted to Know About Wine, but Didn't Know Who to Ask?), will take questions from the audience about, what else? -- wine.
Book signings and more!
Authors will be available after their events to sign books. Books will be available for purchase from Schuler's Books & Music. Twenty percent of all book sales benefit the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation.
