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Volumes of food at Texas Book Festival
If Halloween candy is already on the shelves at grocery stores, that means the Texas Book Festival is around the corner.
The free festival, which takes place the first weekend in November, is one of Austin’s best public events, showcasing the best of the book world. Big-name authors are always a draw — Buzz Aldrin, Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Walls among them this year — but cooks will be thrilled at the food lineup for the festival, which will take place at the Capitol on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
Frederickburg resident and owner of Rather Sweet bakery Rebecca Rather, whose newest book, “Pastry Queen Parties: Entertaining Friends and Family, Texas Style,” comes out Oct. 13., will be there, alongside cookbook authors Lidia Bastianich, Ellie Krieger and Guiliano Hazan.
Wyatt McSpadden will talk barbecue, Robb Walsh will talk oysters and Texas State educator James E. McWilliams will dig deeper into what it takes to create a sustainable food system.
Other authors of food-related books slated to speak include Woody Tasch, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Melanie Haupt, Jason Sheehan, Glenda Pierce Facemire and Jonathan Safran Foer, the “Everything Is Illuminated” author whose first non-fiction book, “Eating Animals,” is about vegetarianism.
The schedule of events will be released in the next few weeks.
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