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Join Anderson’s bookshop for an in-person event with New York Times bestselling author Ree Drummond to celebrate her newest book, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy! All books will be pre-signed; the event will be a presentation and talk from Ree and will not include any opportunity to meet her or take a photo together. Ree will be in conversation with Gina Garapolo-Ciaccio.
This event will be held in at Community Christian Church, and pre-registration is required as space is limited.
Please read these COVID protection requirements carefully:
Masks are required of all customers, regardless of vaccination status, and must remain properly covering the face for the entirety of the event.
A ticket is required for all attendees, attendance will be capped at 500, and seating may also be restricted in order to allow for social distancing.
Anderson’s Bookshop, the author, and the publisher reserve the right to change the format of this event to a virtual one at any time if it becomes necessary. A change in format will not entitle ticket holders to any refund.
Failure to follow these guidelines and to treat all participants with courtesy and respect may result in your expulsion from the event.
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Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!
More about the book:
Bring the family together—and take it easy on yourself!
Between my family, my website, my cookbooks, and my TV show, I make a lot of food around here! And as much as I’ve always loved cooking (and of course, eating!), it seems that more and more these days, I’m looking for ways to simplify my life in the kitchen. I find myself gravitating toward recipes that are delicious but don’t require a lot of prep or fuss, because they free me up to have more time (and energy) for other areas of my life. This also makes cooking less of a chore and more of a pleasure—exactly what cooking should be!
The Pioneer Woman Cooks—Super Easy! will free you up and transform your cooking life as well, with 120 recipes that range from effortless breakfasts to breezy skillet meals to speedy soups to ready-in-minutes Tex-Mex delights, so you’ll have lots of options for any given meal. Many recipes in this cookbook call for step-saving (and sanity-saving) shortcuts that will revolutionize the time you spend making meals for your family, and all of them are utterly scrumptious! I’ve absolutely fallen in love with this new generation of recipes, including Butter Pecan French Toast, Buffalo Chicken Totchos, Speedy Dumpling Soup, Broccoli-Cheese Stromboli (so great for kids!), and an entire section of pastas and grains, such as One-Pot Sausage Pasta and colorful and fresh Hawaiian Shrimp Bowls. You’ll find yummy meals such as Pepperoni Fried Rice, Chicken-Fried Steak Fingers, and ultra-tasty Chicken Curry in a Hurry . . . as well as assemble-in-the-baking-dish casseroles, throw-together sheet pan suppers, and simply decadent desserts such as Mug Cakes, Coconut Cream Pie, and Brownie S’Mores Bars that you’ll dream about.
There’s something for everyone in this cookbook, and not a single recipe, ingredient, or step is complicated or difficult. Now that’s the kind of cooking we can all get behind!
About the author:
Ree Drummond is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier, and The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays. Ree’s beloved website, The Pioneer Woman, was founded in 2006 and showcases her cooking, photography, and anecdotes about country life. Her cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, premiered on Food Network in 2011. Ree loves Ethel Merman songs, Lucille Ball, and The Godfather. She lives on a working cattle ranch in Oklahoma with her husband and four children.
There is nothing Gina Garapolo-Ciaccio enjoys more than cooking and entertaining for her family and
friends. During the first year of the pandemic she and her husband, Joe, would spend
their Saturdays cooking meals and baking fresh breads and cinnamon rolls and then
delivering the freshly prepared meals (while keeping social distance) to their family and
friends.
Gina’s passion for cooking is deeply rooted in her Italian heritage. Being in the kitchen with her Grandmother and learning how to express love with food is at the core of who Gina is. She began working at the age of 13 in her family’s Italian restaurant...with her whole family! But that is for a different conversation. Gina continued working at the family restaurant until after college where she began her career as a paralegal. After spending far too many years working in law firms, Gina joined The Standard Club of Chicago where she served as Director of Membership and Club Events.
It was at The Standard Club that Gina was able to turn her passion for entertaining into her professional life. During her tenure, Gina and her team hosted between 80-100 events each year. Many of those events were book events with author’s such as Joan Rivers, Alex Guranaschelli, Fabio Viviani, Bethenny Frankel, Chef Edward Lee, Chef Michael Anthony to name a few.
Gina continued her career in hospitality by joining the food and beverage incubator and venture capital firm, Cleveland Avenue, founded by Don Thompson, the former President and CEO of McDonald’s. Currently, Gina is a wrangler of schedules, budgets, and celebrities for TIME’S UP -- the organization working to eradicate sexual harassment and gender inequality from all industries, including the food and beverage industry.
