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Potluck and Book Talk with Patricia Tanumihardja and Slow Food Baltimore

Event Details

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio
5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The Ivy joins with Slow Food Baltimore, a chapter of Slow Food USA, to present a special afternoon of food and conversation with Patricia Tanumihardja, featuring her cookbook Mortar and Pestle: Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen!

In addition to a conversation and Q&A with the author, your $5 ticket includes homemade food– following recipes from the featured book– thoughtfully provided by members of Slow Food Baltimore. Add a cookbook to your ticket or purchase one at the event.

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Written by a mother and daughter team, Mortar and Pestle is filled with family recipes spanning three decades for Indonesian dishes served at their family table.

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Decades of cooking and writing have honed Patricia (Pat) Tanumihardja’s craft as a longtime food writer and cookbook author. Pat has always wanted to eat good food and write about it. And now, with bylines in the Washington Post, Serious Eats, Bon Appetit, edibleSeattle, and more, she’s living the dream. In addition to her latest Mortar and Pestle–Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, written together with her mother, Julia, Pat has four other pan-Asian cookbooks including The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook and Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals: Fast, Fresh & Affordable. A third-culture kid, Pat was born in Jakarta to Chinese Indonesian parents and raised in Singapore. Today, she lives in Springfield, VA with her husband and son. Find her on Instagram: @Pickles.and.Tea and online: ediblewords.com.

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