Oakland, Jack London Square Sept. 23-25, 2011

Get Lit

Kick off Eat Real Oakland by getting lit! Litquake is putting together a smörgåsbord of storytelling, with food travel adventures, tales of old-time food fun, and more. Grab a beer and a seat and spend a spell at our food lit regale! Emceed by Jan Newberry, food and wine editor for San Francisco Magazine.

Panel
Andrew Beahrs is the author of Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens. His writing on food and history has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Gastronomica, and other publications.

Steven Gdula is the author of Gobba Gobba Hey: A Gob Cook Book. His previous book, The Warmest Room in the House, was a Chicago Tribune top pick for 2008. He lives – and eats and drinks and writes and bakes – in San Francisco.

Don George, award-winning travel writer, is the author of Travel Writing and the editor of seven anthologies, including A Moveable Feast and The Kindness of Strangers.

Jere Gettle, called “the Indiana Jones of seeds” by The New York Times, is the author of The Heirloom Life Gardener and owner of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company.

Jennifer Reese, author of Bake the Bread, Buy the Butter, has written for Food & Wine, Saveur, Salon, and The New York Times Book Review and was the book critic for Entertainment Weekly. She was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. In April, 2008 she started her blog, The Tipsy Baker, listed as The Oregonian newspaper’s “Website of the Week” and featured on Marketplace.