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		Click here to learn about the author Promotional Events and Reading Tour! Jan 21st, 2009 Kurt will be featured in the Des Moines Register Jan 25th, 2009 Slow Food New Mexico, Santa Fe Feb 15, Gateway Market, Downtown Des Moines, 11am -2 pm also meet local food producers, La Querica and Sutlff Cider. Feb 19th, Central College, Pella, Iowa This summer Kurt will be part of the Slow Food show being held in Cedar Falls Iowa stay tuned as more events are being planned. Previous Events 8/29-9/1/2008 - Slow Food Nation, Reading sponsored by Point Reyes Books, during Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, CA 09/05/2008 September 5th, Fairfield, Iowa Friday’s Art Walk and Food Celebration. Readings at 21st Century Bookstore. 7 & 9 pm, also sponsored by Heartland Reality. 9/10/2008 - Schlafly Bottleworks, 7:30 pm Part of the Slowednesday events and Slow Food St. Louis St. Louis, MO 9/14/2008 - Field to Family, Iowa City, IA, 4:30 pm., signing and reading at the Motley Cow, Iowa City, Iowa food and drinks will be on tap. 9/20/2008 - Food for Thought, events in Madison, WI 9/24/2008 - Will be featured in the Christian Science Monitor 9/25-27/2008 - Midwest Booksellers Association Convention, St. Paul. MN Part of the Midwest Connnections Moveable Feast events as well as formal and informal signings. 9/25/2008 - Lucia’s€, 5 pm, signing and reading at this popular Twin Cities locale, Minneapolis, MN 10/2-5/2008 - The American Royal BBQ Competition, Celebrity Chef, Cooking Demo and Signing at this classic Kansas City, MO event. 10/3/2008, KU Oread Bookstore, Lawrence, Kansas, 5:30 - 7 pm, this event is being co-sponsored by KU Food Service as well as local community groups in Lawrence. 10/10/2008 - Know the Score, Iowa Public Radio, Iowa City, IA 5-7 pm, join the Live Audience at the Old Capital Senate Chambers on the U of I Pentacrest, or listen live on Iowa Public Radio via webstream, or radio 10/17/2008, Des Moines, Iowa Kitchen Collage, 11:30a-1p, Des Moines, Iowa Book reading and signing with time for questions. Make plans to be here in Iowa’s Capital City. Friday, 10/24/2008, Ames, Iowa Noon on the Iowa State Campus, at 8 Curtiss Hall, Sponsored by Wheatfields Grocery and Slow Food Ames 11/13/2008, Iowa Public Radio’s Talk @ 12 on WSUI AM910, or webstream on Iowa Public Radio. Call-in talk radio show 11/14/2008, Iowa City, Iowa Live From Prairie Lights, 7-8p, Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA Join Kurt as he ascends the steps to read and sign books at this Midwest Writers Mecca. 11/20/2008, Louisville, KY Carmichael’s Bookstore on Frankfort Ave, Louisville, Kentucky, 7:00 - 8:30 pm 11/25/2008, Columbus, OH 6 pm Dragonfly Neo-V restaurant co-sponsored by Slow Food Columbus 12/6/2008 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Barnes & Noble, Author signing 11 am to Noon 12/9/08 Wild Rose Bookstore, Univ of Iowa Hospital and Clinics 11:30am - 1230pm 12/11/2008 Chicago, Illinois Reading at The Book Cellar in assoc. with Slow Food Chicago 7 pm

A Cook's Journey
Slow Food In The Heartland

ISBN 9781888160369, $26.95
192 pgs, 8x10 (Fall, 2008)
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Chef Kurt Michael Friese
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Great journeys are often inspired by simple questions and observations. Join Chef Kurt Michael Friese as he travels through our nation's Heartland.

When he recognized that the epicenters of the world's different culinary heritages have always been in the heart of a nation's grain belt, whether it be France, India, China, Italy, or Germany, he realized that great food must be waiting to be discovered all across the American Heartland. So he went looking, from Ohio to Oklahoma to North Dakota, thirteen states in all. His intuition was right—the center of our country truly is a fascinating, varied and healthy culinary region, with far more stories than would fit in one book.

Friese's expedition explores and explains the Slow Food movement throughout the American Midwest. If you haven't heard of the Slow Food movement this book will be an eye-opener for you. If you are aware of Slow Food you will be amazed and pleased to learn of the remarkable diversity that this region of the country is providing. Brick oven cooking and traditional Prosciutto in Iowa; micro-breweries in Ann Arbor and St. Louis; smoked lake trout on the shore of Lake Superior; food experts in Minnesota's twin cities and Madison, Wisconsin; exciting ventures in food security and quality in Oklahoma, Nebraska, North and South Dakota; family recipes from Italy in Kansas City; even the rebirth of Al Capone's prohibition rye whiskey. An insightful, inspiring collection that also includes relevant, mouth-watering recipes by the author and the folks featured in this Chef's remarkable journey. This exploration into the Heartland is not to be missed.




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	Des Moines Register article Paper Palate review Eat Drink Better review Minneapolis Star Tribune review Corridor Buzz Business Journal from Blue Planet Green Living Paper Palate review Radish Magazine excerpt (Nov. issue) Review with Little Village Excerpt at Grist.com Excerpt in Edible Iowa River Valley part of WVUM radio’s Lake Effect Program, Milwaukee, WI Excerpt in Edible Grand Traverse Reviewed in The Iowan magazine Featured in the Christian Science Monitor Interview with Kurt Friese in the Press-Citizen Read the new review in this month’s Iowa Source Deborah Madison reviews A Cook’s Journey for Culinate Anne Kapler reviews the book for the Gazette in eastern Iowa Chef Kurt Michael Friese will appear on The Splendid Table radio show this fall. Check here for show date.