Celebration & Community Event in honor of Debbie Berne featuring Celia Sack, Leslie Jonath, and you! • Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide

Debbie Berne was a Bay Area-based fixture in cookbook publishing. She designed dozens of cookbooks including The Downton Abbey Cookbook, Somebody Feed Phil, Budmo, (Serious) New Cook, Chîmi Nu'am, The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook, and Flavors from the Farm. Debbie was also the author of The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers.  

** To celebrate the release of Cookbooking, the life and work of Debbie Berne and all things cookbooks, audience members are invited to bring a cookbook to share at the event. Bring your favorite, your most-used, your funniest or most bizarre find, anything you feel is noteworthy or has a good story behind it. All cookbooks are welcome!

Please use this form to let us know in advance which cookbook you'll be bringing, so our event moderators can prepare. You (and your book!) may be called on during the event. **

Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide- Subjects include: a visual history of cookbook design; what’s the matter with front matter?; the diet cookbooks we’ve starved for; the proliferation of French cookbooks, hippie cookbooks, TV-show cookbooks. And so, so, so, so, so much more. In short, Cookbooking is a celebration of the genre and an exploration of what makes books filled with recipes so engaging, collectable, and such excellent companions in bed. 

This is a book for cookbook collectors and casual fans alike. Whether you're looking for cool cookbooks to add to your shelf or searching for a unique gift to give the foodie in your life, Cookbooking is sure to surprise and delight.