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Book Tour Update

It’s been a wonderful ride so far. My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has turned out at the events here in Iowa City, as well as in Fairfield, Des Moines, Ames, Madison, Minneapolis/St Paul, Kansas City and St. Louis. Now it’s on to Champaign/Urbana, Louisville, Columbus and Chicago, and we’ll kick off this leg with two Iowa Public Radio appearances. Remember, if you want me to come to your town, contact Ice Cube Press and we’ll see if it can be worked out.

ALSO! I’ll be shouting from the rooftops when a date is announced, but in the meantime keep your ear to the ground for my interview to show up soon on Lynn Rosetto Kasper’s The Splendid Table from PRI.

Here’s the rest of the lineup so far:

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.

11/19/2008
Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, details TBA soon

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

Tags: A Cook's Journey, Book, Book tour, Iowa, Splendid Table by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
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A Candidate Actually Says the Word "Food"

In an interview with Joe Klein today, Sen. Obama acknowledged the brilliant letter to the next president by Michael Pollan and said that agriculture is a huge contributor to GHG, is a national security risk, and is built in cheap oil.

"I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael
Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is
built on
cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is
contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And
in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to
national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices
or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are
partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because
they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease,
obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in
healthcare costs. That's just one sector of the economy. You think
about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true
on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board. 
For us to say we are just going to completely revamp how we use energy
in a way that deals with climate change, deals with national security
and drives our economy, that's going to be my number one priority when
I get into office, assuming, obviously, that we have done enough to
just stabilize the immediate economic situation."

Tags: Articles, Barack Obama, Michael Pollan, Slow Food, food, food politics, food security by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
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What They Are Saying: Some Kind Words and Unsolicited Testimonials


Selected through the Upper
Midwest Booksellers Association

read what booksellers are saying

Excerpt at Grist.com

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.

Tags: A Cook's Journey, Articles, Book, Book tour, Christian Science Monitor, Culinate, Deborah Madison, Slow Food, Splendid Table by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
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American Royal Cooking Demo

My thanks to everyone who attended my cooking demo at the American Royal in Kansas City. It was a pleasure to meet you all, and here’s the recipe for a great side dish for any good BBQ, the Thai pickled cucumbers we prepared there today.

Oh and by the way, for those of you who wanted to get my book but couldn’t because we had no way to take credit cards, please pick up your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or order it through your local independent bookseller.

Thai Pickled Cucumbers

1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 each cucumber (hothouse) — sliced very thin
3 tablespoons shallot — julienned
1 thai chili — minced (or to taste)
1 tablespoon peanuts, dry-roasted — chopped
8 sprigs cilantro

Boil the vinegar, water and sugar. Pour over remaining ingredients, mix thoroughly, and chill until served (at least 1 hour).

Tags: A Cook's Journey, BBQ, Book, Book tour, Kansas City, Slow Food, food, recipe by Chef Kurt Michael Friese
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