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Join us for a lively panel discussion with three acclaimed authors, whose lives and work focus on our food & culinary culture and history. Moderated by award-winning journalist Alicia Ansted. FREE

Barbara Damrosch writes, consults and lectures on gardening and is co-owner, with her husband Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine. From May 2003 to September 2017 she wrote a weekly column for the Washington Post called “A Cook’s Garden.” She is the author of several books, The Garden Primer, Theme Gardens, and The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook, co-authored with Eliot, which won the American Horticultural Society’s Book Award in 2014.

Brooke Dojny) is an award-winning food journalist and cookbook author who specializes in writing about New England food. She is the author of Chowderland, Lobster!, The New England Clam Shack Cookbook, and Dishing Up® Maine. Dojny writes regularly for the Portland Herald. 

Kate Shaffer is a Portland-based writer and the founder of—and artistic director for—Ragged Coast Chocolates . She is the author of three cookbooks, which have earned accolades from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Foreword Indies Awards, and include a spot on Food & Wine’s 2011 Top 25 Cookbooks of the Year. Kate has written about food and cooking for various regional publications, including the Portland Press Herald, Creative Maine, and Edible Maine.

Alicia Anstead  is an arts and culture reporter, editor, consultant and educator. She is the editor-in-chief of the national magazine Inside Arts. As an arts reporter at the Bangor Daily News in Maine, she also covered food and food writing (and worked in Maine restaurant kitchens).