October 15 - November 2, 2008

Concord and Lowell, Massachusetts

Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussion celebrating the written and the spoken word.
  • Roy Blount Jr.
    Roy Blount Jr.
  • Carole Boston Weatherford
    Carole Boston Weatherford
  • James Wood
    James Wood
  • Jennifer Haigh
    Jennifer Haigh

Lisa Zwirn

Events: Chef Fest: A Food Tasting & Book Signing - POSTPONED

Book: Christmas Cookies

A food writer and recipe developer, Lisa Zwirn is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and has written for a number of publications, including Cooking Pleasures, Intermezzo, Fine Cooking, Cooking Light, and Pastry Art & Design.

Zwirn is an avid holiday baker, and her new book, Christmas Cookies, offers fifty wonderful recipes for holiday treats, such as Cocoa Meringue Kisses, Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, and Iced Lemon Rounds. There are treats for chocoholics, holiday shapes that children will love, luxurious sandwich cookies, and plenty of spiced rounds, buttery wafers, and decadent bars.