The secret-garden-y, otherwordly suburban near-paradise Terrain at Styers is giving you more reasons to go all the way to Glenn Mills. This Saturday, Warren Brown from CakeLove (making delicious cakes from scratch in the D.C., Virginia, Maryland neck of the woods) is having a tasting (!) and signing his new cookbook for you, United Cakes of America. For those of you that are more into the veggie thing, this Sunday, Susie Middleton, author of Fresh, Fast & Green (a cookbook full of vegetable-focused dishes that sound pretty delicious; it was selected as one of NPR’s top ten cookbooks for the summer) is doing a demonstration of these cooking techniques, and then you get to eat the food and have her sign your cookbook.
Since canning your own food is a) a pretty smart idea in general, and b) painfully cool right now- Thursday, July 22 is the first of Terrain’s “Modern Pantry” canning series. Marisa McClellan from the Food in Jars blog and Bonnie Shershow from the eponymous Bonnie’s Jams are teaching you how to can food all summer. This is one of those apocalypse skills which just seems like it’s worth picking up.