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This week, New York Times Magazine sifted through the age old battle over biscuits: where to find them, what to put in them, and who can make them. Even though there are about as many ways to mix a biscuit as there are to pull pork, some Southerners believe that a good biscuit simply cannot be found above the Mason Dixon line. Not so, says Nathalie Dupree, Charleston author of Southern Biscuits. With over 50 takes on the traditional biscuit in her book, the Times summoned her expertise. “Any biscuit is possible for a Yankee,” she said. And that’s that.

Click here to order a signed copy of Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Biscuits (Gibbs Smith, pb., 216 pp. $21.98) from Blue Bicycle’s online store.

Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series
Mary Alice Monroe and Nathalie Dupree

“Butterflies and Biscuits”

The Blue Bicycle Books Author’s Luncheon Series continues Fri., June 10, 12 – 2 pm with two of Charleston’s and Blue Bicycle’s most beloved writers Mary Alice Monroe and Nathalie Dupree.

Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times best-selling author of The Beach House, Time is a River, The Book Club and Last Light over Carolina, among others. Her latest novel, The Butterfly’s Daughter, tells the story of four women on a transformational journey that follows migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico. In this compelling novel of self discovery, Monroe combines a finely crafted coming-of-age story with elements of environmentalism and Mexican culture.

Nathalie Dupree is a James Beard-award-winning chef and food writer, and the author of Nathalie Dupree’s Shrimp and Grits, New Southern Cooking and many others. Her latest cookbook, Southern Biscuits, was written with food writer Cynthia Graubart. Layered, fluffy, feathery, silky, soft, and velvety biscuits all come together in Southern Biscuits, a book of recipes and baking secrets.

The talk and lunch will be at Fish restaurant, 442 King St., downtown Charleston, Fri., June 10, 12 – 2 pm. A champagne and dessert book signing will immediately follow at Blue Bicycle Books.

Advanced reservations required. Tickets are $30. For tickets please call 843-722-2666 or click here to purchase online.

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Southern girl, Jane Borden will sign her quirky memoir of her life as a transplanted New York City hipster at the Allison Sprock Gallery Tues., May 17, 7 pm.

Born and bred in a proper Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, she attended boarding school in Virginia and went on to join a sorority at Chapel Hill. After college, she moved to New York and discovered that none of her debutante grooming meant a lick in the Big Apple. Anyone who has moved away from home or lived in (or dreamed of living in) New York will appreciate the hilarity of Jane’s musings on the intersections and altercations between Southern hospitality and Gotham cool.

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Blue Bicycle Books welcomes Carolyn Evans, author of Forty Beads: The Simple, Sexy Secret for Transforming your Marriage, on Thurs., May 12, 5-7 pm. Offering a fresh, honest take on the sex lives of married couples, Evans introduces her tried-and-true Forty Beads Method to create lasting, positive change in a marriage. Based on the simple fact that men need to have sex in order to feel close, and women need to feel close in order to want to have sex, Evans approaches a universal tug-of-war with sharp, girlfriend-to-girlfriend wit and proactive advice.  Come join us for champagne at her release party Thursday!  To see a video about the Method, click here.

(Forty Beads: The Simple, Sexy Secret for Transforming your Marriage, Running Press, pb., 224 pp, $14)

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