TALBOTT & ARDING EVENTS

Conte Sebastiano Capponi in conversation with Kate Arding 

Join us for a lively discussion and tasting of five Italian wines from Villa Calcinaia and five select Italian cheeses.

Kate and her Tuscan cousin Sebastiano have a historic family connection, they share great, great, grandparents and a passion for fine wine and cheese! Sebastiano and Kate will be guiding us through the terroir of Italian flavors and telling stories. Join us and learn how to truly taste wine and cheese from this proud family of professionals.  

The wines made at Villa Calcinaia are the truest expression of a family's pride and sense of history.

Tickets are $50.00 and include five wines, five cheeses, bread, tasting notes, and a guided experience.
Seating is limited and this will be sure to sell out. 

Join Talbott & Arding for a pop-up event by our friends at Hudson Valley Fisheries and sample seared steelhead trout and smoked items.

Fresh fish and smoked fish will be available for purchase at the tent outside of the Partition St. entrance.

Learn about this pristine, delicious fish sustainably raised in a nearby land-based closed and contained recirculating aquaculture system. A salmon cousin, New York Steelhead from Hudson Valley Fisheries is raised without antibiotics, hormones or harsh chemicals. The fish is free of mercury and microplastics.

Please join us in welcoming cook, writer, and New York Times Cooking contributor Lidey Heuck to Talbott & Arding, in celebration of her first cookbook: Cooking in Real Life. Lidey worked as Ina Garten's assistant at the Barefoot Contessa for 7 years.

Our kitchen will prepare 2-3 recipes from her cookbook and will feature them in our prepared foods case and pastry counter. We will also cook 1 recipe as a taste giveaway as Lidey signs copies of her book.

Ina writes in the foreword to the book, "Lidey subscribes to the same theory of home cooking that I do. We all want recipes that have ingredients you can buy in almost any grocery store, recipes that are easy enough to make without breaking a sweat and will be delicious and satisfying for either an ordinary weekday dinner or for a special occasion."

Designed to be crowd-pleasing and cook-pleasing, these recipes will inspire you to make dinner even when you don't feel like cooking.

Join us in welcoming food stylist, author and veteran America's Test Kitchen cast member Elle Simone Scott to Talbott & Arding.

Elle's newest book, Food Gifts: 150+ Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents is rooted in her firm belief that food fosters connection, and there is no more meaningful way to connect with others than to give a food gift that you have prepared and packaged yourself.

Our pastry department will prepare 2-3 recipes from Food Gifts and will feature them at our pastry counter. We will also bake one recipe as a taste giveaway as Elle signs copies of her book.

On Sunday June 2nd we will be celebrating Lebanese flavors and culture with Edy Massih from Edy's Grocer in Brooklyn. He has written his first book, Keep It Zesty which celebrates the women who shaped his life and the spices and flavors of the Middle East.

We will prepare 2-3 dips and spreads, salads and sandwiches from his colorful and fun cookbook, and will feature them in our prepared foods case. We will also cook one tasty, zesty bite as a taste giveaway as Massih signs copies of his book.

New York Times bestselling author Andy Baraghani says of Massih's book "Edy Massih's deeply personal debut cookbook, Keep it Zesty, immerses you in his charming and delicious world, making you wish his beloved Brooklyn shop was right around the corner from you. Fortunately, the book's collection of bright, vegetable-forward recipes will inspire and allow you to bring those flavors to your own home"

Nordic-Style roasting perfected.

Will Warren of Mirra coffee, located in Rhinebeck NY will be joining us at our coffee bar for a very unique in-store tasting of small-batch Nordic-Style coffee, where he will demonstrate how to brew a cup and guide us through a tasting.

Nordic-Style is the lightest roasting style, which develops the coffee just enough to highlight the unique and nuanced flavors present in each batch, and allows for the purest expression of the beans' inherent flavor.

We are looking forward to hosting Will, and hope you will join us, taste some Nordic-Style coffee and perhaps learn how to brew a cup.

Join us in welcoming celebrated photographer Pieter Estersohn to Talbott & Arding for an in-person book signing.

Estersohn's new book, Back to the Land beautifully records country life in the Hudson Valley.

His photographs of individuals and the bucolic landscape of foraging, cheesemaking, beekeeping, syrup tapping, beer brewing, orchard tending, vegetable gardening, and ecological farming fill us with an enthusiasm and an appreciation for this new way of living.

Join us as we welcome award winning pastry chef Renato Poliafito as he signs copies of his new book DOLCI! American Baking with an Italian Accent.

Renato, owner of Ciao, Gloria an Italian-American bakery/coffee shop in Brooklyn NY is a James-Beard nominated pastry chef and award winning cookbook author.

A vibrant comingling of two great culinary cultures filtered through the mind of an American with the heart of an Italian, Dolci! hits the sweet spot between Italian and American baking.

Our pastry department will prepare 2-3 recipes from DOLCI! and will feature them at our pastry counter. We will also bake one recipe as a taste giveaway as Renato signs copies of his book.