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Dope last-minute foodie gifts, sans driving & lines!

POSTED: Monday, December 22, 2008, 3:00 PM
Filed Under: Food Books

Get your favorite foodie (that's not you) a chance to hear one of the grand masters of edibles speak at the Philadelphia Free Library this winter. You can conveniently neglect to mention that the tickets were $14 or free.

Mark Bittman
freelibrary.org

My giant crush Mark Bittman (The Minimalist for The New York Times) and author of the new book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, will be visiting our fair city on February 4. His new tome "examines the role that meat consumption plays in global warming and discusses how government policy, big marketing, and global economics influence what we eat." Not so-fun-fact: According to Bittman, serving your family of four a steak dinner consumes the same amount of energy as driving around in an SUV for three hours, leaving all the lights on at home. Gulp. Um, anyone for risotto con asparagi?

Marc Vetri
freelibrary.org

One for risotto is almost-legendary local chef Marc Vetri, who will be at the Library on January 20 in support of his new memoir-cookbook, Il Viaggio di Vetri.  Ashley Primis, Food and Lifestyle Editor of Philadelphia Magazine, will be the one to who gets to rake chef Vetri over his own natural hardwood coals. 

Tickets for the Bittman talk are not on sale yet; call 215-686-5322 for information. The Vetri event is free; call 215-567-4341 for more info. Both events will be held at the Central Library at 1901 Vine Street. 

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