Events for January 11, 2017
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12:00 pm
On Baking and Writing: A Talk with Louise Miller
Join pastry chef/author Louise Miller at the Boston Athenæum for a discussion about her writing process and research, as well as a reading from her acclaimed debut novel, A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living. This noon event is free and open to the public. About A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living: When Olivia Rawlings—pastry chef […]
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The Case Against Sugar
Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning science journalist Gary Taubes for a discussion of his latest book, The Case Against Sugar. From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.