Chef Amanda Cohen and her husband and co-author, Charleston’s own Grady Hendrix, will sign copies of their unique graphic novel cookbook, Dirty Candy: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, 2012, pb. 224 pp, $19.95), Sun. Oct. 14, 3 – 6 pm, Square Onion, 18 Resolute Lane in I’on, Mt. Pleasant.
Dirt Candy: A Cookbook, emerged from the kitchens of Dirt Candy, the award-winning vegetable (she doesn’t actually like to call it “vegetarian”) restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village and is the first comic book cookbook to hit America. The drawings are the work of Ryan Dunlavey, the cartoonist behind the acclaimed Action Philosophers! series. Dirt Candy features techniques that teach you to make vegetables the most exciting thing on your plate. It’s also part memoir, showing you how to open a restaurant, how to deal with a crooked contractor, what it’s like when Martha Stewart shows up for her reservation, and how being a great chef is all about balancing your inner monkey with your inner panda.
Come sample recipes from the book (prepared by Square Onion Chef Cary Zapatka), have a glass of wine (there will be a lot of wine), and get your copy of the cookbook that features giant robots, angry monkeys, the ghost of Julia Child and a truckload of tips and techniques to make sublime vegetable dishes.
Cohen and friends will also be prepping a dinner for a select group of veggie-lovers as part of Charleston’s L.I.M.E. dinner series. Find more info. here.
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