Please join us for a brunch style tasting reception and Q&A at Martha’s Table, celebrating author, chef, Sips & Suppers Co-founder, and former Martha’s Table Board Member Joan Nathan.
Featuring her soon to be released new book
“My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories”.
With opportunities to be entered into a drawing for a chance to shadow Tom Sietsema, Food Critic, The Washington Post or a private chef experience Joan Nathan.
Following will be a Q&A event with Joan Nathan, with Tom Sietsema moderating.
Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post
Najmieh Batmanglij & Chris Morgan, Noon
Amy Brandwein, Centrolina, Piccolina
Roberto Donna, Roberto’s, Le Bistro
Scott Drewno, The Fried Rice Collective
Yamrot Ezineh, Letena Restaurant
Mark Furstenberg, Bread Furst
Ruben Garcia, Casa Teresa, the Square
Ruth Gresser, Pizzeria Paradiso
Ris Lacoste, RIS DC
Alex Levin, The Schlow Restaurant Group
Kaz Okochi, Kaz Sushi Bistro
Kevin Tien, Moon Rabbit
Kathryn and Michael Hanley
Marsha Paller
George Vradenburg
Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley
Cathy Sulzberger and Dr. Joe Perpich
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By purchasing a ticket, I understand that I am holding a spot for an event that funds critical programs of Martha’s Table; therefore, tickets are nonrefundable. If I am unable to attend, I understand that I can transfer my ticket to a friend.
Each $100 ticket includes a signed copy of Joan Nathan’s book “My Life in Recipes: Food Family, and Memories” and an entry for one of the drawing prizes. Drawing prizes include (1) Private cooking class for eight at Joan Nathan’s home and (2) “Critic for a Night” with Tom Sietsema* (Winner of critic for a night cannot be from the restaurant industry). Proceeds benefit Martha’s Table (Federal Tax ID Number: 52-1186071). The fair market value of each ticket is $100. Contributions above the fair market value is fully tax deductible.
Joan Nathan is the author of twelve cookbooks including her latest work, “My Life in Recipes,” releasing in April 2024 with Penguin Random House. Her previous cookbook, “Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France” (Knopf), was named one of the 10 best cookbooks of 2010 by NPR, Food and Wine, and Bon Appétit magazines. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Tablet Magazine.
In 1994, Nathan’s Jewish Cooking in America won both the James Beard Award for the best American cookbook and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award. In 2017 this book was named a “Culinary Classic” by the IACP. The same James Beard Award was later bestowed on her 2005 cookbook The New American Cooking. An earlier work, An American Folklife Cookbook, was given the R.T. French Tastemaker Award in 1985 for American cooking. Her other books include Foods of Israel Today, Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook, The Jewish Holiday Baker, The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen, The Jewish Holiday Kitchen, and The Flavor of Jerusalem.
In 2004 she was the Guest Curator of Food Culture USA, the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC, based on the research for her book, The New American Cooking.
Nathan’s PBS television series, Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan, was nominated in 2000 for the James Beard Award for Best National Television Food Show. She was also senior producer of Passover: Traditions of Freedom, an award-winning documentary sponsored by Maryland Public Television. Nathan has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television programs including the Today show, Good Morning, America, The Martha Stewart Show and National Public Radio.
An inductee to the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who in American Food and Beverage, she also received the Silver Spoon Award from Food Arts magazine. In addition, Nathan received an honorary degree from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Culture in Chicago and the Golda Award from the American Jewish Congress. In May 2011, she was awarded a Special Recognition Award from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for her work to preserve Jewish foodways. In 2015, Les Dames d’Escoffier awarded Nathan the prestigious Grande Dame, an award recognizing professional achievments in the food industry. Previous recipients include Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, and Alice Waters. In 2019, The Museum of Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot honored Nathan with a Pomegranate Award, recognizing her as a visionary authority on Jewish cuisine.
Nathan serves on the board of the DC based organization, Martha’s Table, by whom she was recently honored for her work on Sunday Night Suppers, an annual fundraising event chaired by Nathan, Alice Waters and Jose Andres. Through a collaboration of chefs, organizations and concerned citizens, the dinners are held one night a year in various homes across the DC Metropolitan Area.
Joan Nathan was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a master’s degree in French literature and earned a master’s in public administration from Harvard University. For three years she lived in Israel where she worked for Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. In 1974, working for Mayor Abraham Beame in New York, she co-founded the Ninth Avenue Food Festival. The mother of three grown children with her late husband, attorney Allan Gerson, Nathan lives in Washington, D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard.
About The Moderator
Tom Sietsema has been The Washington Post’s food critic since 2000. In leaner years, he worked for the Microsoft Corp., where he launched sidewalk.com; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; the San Francisco Chronicle; and the Milwaukee Journal. A graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he has also written for Food & Wine, Gourmet, GQ, Travel & Leisure and other national publications. In 2016, he received an award from the James Beard Foundation for his series identifying and rating the “10 Best Food Cities in America” the previous year.
Underwriting Sponsors
Kathryn and Michael Hanley
George Vradenburg
Chef Sponsors
Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley
Cathy Sulzberger and Dr. Joe Perpich
