CONNECTING FOOD WITH COMMUNITY, through experience

TALBOTT & ARDING EVENTS

Mad Rose Specialty Foods In-Store Demo

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, March 30, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

Join us for an in-store tasting with Mad Rose Foods. Taste unforgettable European specialty foods curated by wine importer Neal Rosenthal.

Orgolio de la Poderina
Bright and complex extra virgin olive oil with a smooth texture and finish, from the Sienna Hills in Tuscany. A perfect oil for your spring cooking.

Onion Mostarda di Cipolle Rosso (red onion jam)
A perfect accompaniment to a Talbott & Arding cheese board.

Casa Marrazo 1934 Pomodorini Gialli Ercolano (yellow cherry tomatoes suspended in water)
Working with third generation farmers, they have been preserving the tradition of Neopolitan cuisine since 1934.
The perfect taste of tradition.


The Secret of Cooking. Bee Wilson and Tamar Adler in Conversation

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Thursday, April 11, 2024 / 7:00-8:30PM

How to make cooking work in your everyday life.

Do you wish you could cook more, but don't know where to start? Bee Wilson has spent years collecting cooking secrets: ways of speeding it up or slowing it down, strategies for days when you are stretched for time and other ideas for when you can luxuriate with kitchen therapy.

Bee's delicious, doable recipes are the kind of unfussy food that makes every day taste better. As Bee writes, "there's still magic in the kitchen, if you know where to look"

Join us for a fun and lively conversation between esteemed British cookery writer Bee Wilson and our dear friend and award winning local food writer Tamar Adler, AKA the Kitchen Shrink. Snacks and drinks will be served, and Bee will be signing copies of her new book: The Secret of Cooking.

Yotam Ottolenghi has called Bee Wilson "the ultimate food scholar."


Communal Brands In-Store Wine Tasting & Menu De Printemps

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, April 13, 2024 / 11 - 3 pm

Join us for a French wine tasting with Communal Brands and stay for a very special spring lunch.

Communal brands is a producer, importer, distributor, and innovator of eco-conscious wines. They are wine lovers with a respect for tradition and innovation that fosters positive change in the wine industry.

Taste four wines and buy yourself a glass of your favorite to pair with our special spring menu, created by Mona.

MENU DE PRINTEMPS

Camembert Fermier, Rosette de Lyon, cornichons, T & A toasts - $20

Soupe de cresson, poireaux avec crème fraîche et croûtons - $9

Navarin d'agneau, baguette et beurre Bordier & salade verte - $20

Tarte tropezienne - $10


Brian Levy Book Signing

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, April 20, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

Please join us in welcoming groundbreaking pastry chef and cookbook author Brian Levy to Talbott & Arding, in celebration of his cookbook: Good & Sweet, named one of the best cookbooks of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Serious Eats.

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

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches his experience with sugar and sweetener substitutions across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Recipes offer substitutions for dietary restrictions include a flavorful sweetener that transcends cane sugar, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider.

Nick Malgieri says of the book, "In Good & Sweet, Brian Levy has brilliantly freed bakers from the slavish adherence to refined sugar.
Instead, the natural sweetness of both fresh and dried fruits is used to advantage in tempting and creative recipes.
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Villa Calcinaia at Talbott & Arding

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, April 27, 2024 / 7 - 8:30 pm

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. 


Lidey Heuck Book Signing

Location: 202 Allen Street, Hudson, NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, May 11, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

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.


Elle Simone Scott Book Signing

Location: 202 Allen Street, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, May 18, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

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.


Edy Massih Book Signing

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Sunday, June 2, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

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"


Mirra In-Store Coffee Tasting

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, June 22, 2024 / 10am - 12pm

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.


Renato Poliafito Book Signing

Location: 202 Allen St, Hudson NY 12534
Date & Time: Saturday, June 29, 2024 / 12 - 2 pm

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.


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