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June events are live! 🥳 More details are coming for all of these events but we are very excited to continue our author series and also kick off summer ♨️ Guest Chef Series: Cookbook Edition | GRILL TIME with Noah Galuten! - June 4 Join us for the second installment of our Guest Chef Series: Cookbook Edition, celebrating GRILL TIME! with chef and author Noah Galuten, in partnership with Read It & Eat Bookshop, alongside Patina 250 Executive Chef Evan Wargo. (@patina250 + @galuten ) Inspired by Galuten’s love of bright flavors, comfort foods, and veggie‑forward dishes, this special event brings the spirit of outdoor grilling indoors. Chef Wargo will curate a multi‑course menu drawn from GRILL TIME!, highlighting seasonal ingredients, live‑fire techniques, and bold, approachable flavors designed for gathering and sharing. Your dinner includes a cookbook with your ticket! 🫓 Talk x Taste with Ham El-Waylly (@hamegram ) - June 11 Join us for an evening with Ham El-Waylly, chef & co-founder of Strange Delight Restaurant in Brooklyn to celebrate his first cookbook, HELLO, HOME COOKING. In Hello, Home Cooking, Chef Ham El-Waylly taps into everyone’s nostalgia—his versions of beloved dishes carry a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it heart-warming quality. These recipes work for cooks of all levels, using core flavors from different cuisines, and frees readers to mix, match, and shake up classic dishes from all around the world.  The ticket includes samples of two recipes from Hello, Home Cooking. Enjoy the tasting during the Q&A with the author. 🥦 Seasonal Snack Prep Workshop - June 14 Nicole is back for the second installment of Snack Attack (@niknacksnackattack ) Snackattack is a hands-on snack prep workshop series rooted in seasonal ingredients and real-life routines. Each workshop highlights what’s in season and readily available in Western New York, teaching participants how to prep and assemble homemade snacks that are nourishing, convenient and cost-effective. 📚 Book Club: Be Ready When Luck Happens - June 16 Join us at She Gathers for our third club meeting of the year in partnership with Cup of Communitea. #CulinaryBookstore #thingstodo716

🥳 Kicking off those Independent Bookstore Day Weekend festivities by telling you all our tickets for Ham El-Waylly are now live. Join us to celebrate Ham's new book HELLO, HOME COOKING on Thursday, June 11th in our signature Talk x Taste format where you'll have the opportunity to try two dishes from his book! Tickets are limited, so grab yours today. Signed copies of his book are available for purchase ✨ Key Details ✨ Day: Thursday, June 11th Time: 6pm Location: The Rails Community Kitchen - Right next door to the Bookshop at 2939 Main Street #talkxtaste #CulinaryBookstore #thingstodo716

What new culinary adventure is waiting for you?

Grilling season is officially upon us! These Grilled Chicken Teriyaki sandwiches with jalapeño slaw from GRILL TIME! by Noah Galuten @galuten were impressive, and now you can experience the cookbook in real life! Read It & Eat Bookshop is partnering with Patina 250 for the second installment of their Guest Chef Series: Cookbook Edition, celebrating GRILL TIME! with chef + author Noah Galuten alongside Executive Chef Evan Wargo. The night will bring bright flavors, live-fire cooking, seasonal ingredients, and a menu built for gathering. ✨ Menu highlights include: • grilled appetizers • citrus + fennel salad with grilled avocado • smoked miso black cod • grilled tomahawk ribeye + seasonal sides • grilled stone fruit dessert Each ticket ($35) includes a signed copy of GRILL TIME! 📍 Patina 250�📅 Thursday, June 4, 2026�⏰ 5:30 PM Tickets are limited, secure your spot today and tag who you hope to kick off grilling season with🍴 #thingstodo716 #grillingseason #readitandeat

On Tuesday, May 5th, Patina 250 and Read It & Eat It Bookshop treated our guests to a one-night-only Caribbean culinary adventure inspired by acclaimed chef-author Rawlston Williams hit release THE CARIBBEAN COOKBOOK! Thank you to the incredible @readitandeatbuf bookshop and Patina 250 culinary teams who took us all the way to the Caribbean Islands through the delish bites and flavors! Missed your chance to attend? Our next Guest Chef Series: Cookbook Edition event is June 4th featuring chef and author Noah Galuten– and his cookbook GRILL TIME, tickets available via the link in bio.

SIGNED COPY ALERT! 🧀👑📚 This is a big one 👀 You can now pre-order a SIGNED copy of my upcoming cookbook, Totally Nachrageous, through my friends at @readitandeatbuf , an amazing independent culinary bookstore in Buffalo, NY 🙌 👉 Pre-orders are a huge deal for authors. They count toward first-week sales, help build momentum, and yes, they can even help a book make a run on the New York Times Best Seller list. No pressure… but also, LET’S MAKE NACHO HISTORY 😯🔥 A few things to know: 🧀 Signed copies are currently available in the U.S. only 📚 The book officially publishes August 25, 2026 👑 Your preorder helps support an amazing independent bookstore 🔥 And every preorder helps this Connecticut Nacho Guy take this nacho dream nationwide Order your signed copy through the link in @readitandeatbuf ’s bio! Thank you for every preorder, share, comment, and nacho-loving bit of support 🙏 @totallynachrageous This whole thing still feels surreal, and I’m so grateful 🫶 Let’s get Totally Nachrageous 🧀👑📚 P.S. Stay tuned for a Buffalo event announcement coming soon 👀 #totallynachrageous #nachoking #cookbookauthor #readitandeat #signedcopy

Congratulations to all of the 2026 James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominees! You can shop the full list of nominees on our website. Photo: Galdones Photography (from the James Beard website) A special shout out to @yooeating , @shospaeth , and @be.spiced who all graciously visited/participated in author chats with the Read It & Eat Bookshop in 2025! We're so proud of all of you ♥️✨ #CulinaryBookstore #Cookbooks #jamesbeard @beardfoundation

Tonight we celebrated women-owned businesses across Buffalo. This year I was a NOMINEE for a 2026 Ignite Award, specifically the WOMAN OF IMPACT: Honoring a business owner whose work is creating meaningful economic, social, or community impact across Western New York from The Women's Business Center at Canisius University (@wbcatcanisius ) for my work with Read It & Eat. You know what's super cool? Seeing two fellow bookstore owners also nominated for their work in the area. Our industry is full of rich powerful community changemakers and I'm so happy to stand alongside them. Congrats to fellow nominees @secondchapterbookstore and @literary.lounge.716 for your respective categories. Kudos to the most supportive Schlepping Husband™️ for always standing by my side too, especially as I fought off a major sinus headache to put on a dress to show up tonight. I didn't WIN the major award, but one speakers did say some say something that resonated with me - I'm often so busy and my brain is often already moving on to the next task - it was nice to sit in that room and reflect on what I HAVE accomplished and be surrounded by other inspiring women #womanownedbusiness #buffalobookstore #CulinaryBookstore #mwbecertified

Making friends as an adult is easier when snacks are involved 🥨🧃🥕🍓 April’s Snack Attack held seasonal conversation, new kitchen hacks, and people gathering around snacks. We spent the afternoon cooking, chatting, flipping through cookbooks, and building simple snacks that make healthy eating feel easier during the week. If you’ve been wanting to:�✨ meet new people in Buffalo�✨ get inspired in the kitchen again�✨ make healthier habits feel more realistic�✨ try something different this spring Snack Attack #2 is officially happening on June 14th, featuring peak seasonal produce from @5loavesfarm 🍓 Tickets are live now through the link in bio — come snack with us!! tag someone you’d bring 👀 #thingstodo716 #buffaloevents #readitandeat

New to the store is the special edition Steak Zine from @cake_zine - "For this pocket-sized special issue, Cake Zine is setting off into carnivorous territory. We're serving up 208 pages of non-fiction and fiction exploring the cultural impact of red meat" This is such a cool magazine and would make a stellar gift for Fathers Day. 👀👀 #cakezine #steakzine #CulinaryBookstore

I see you, bookish friends! Well Read and Well Fed stickers have landed at Read it And Eat and my website. Hope your weekend is full of literature and yummy foods 📚🍜 #wellread #bookstore #journaldecal

On the hunt for a Mother's Day Gift? Swing by She Gathers and grab a set of Wine Glass Plates (set of 4) and a new signed copy of PARTY TRICKS by Buffalo native @ahezel for the hostess in your life. Perfect for a party of any occasion, we have sets in both black and white, and signed copies while supplies last #CulinaryBookstore #mothersdaygift #shoplocal