Cow cuisine throwdown at the DMA!
This event is a way down the road yet, but we just had to tell you about it.
The schedule for the Dallas Museum of Art's 2008 Arts & Letters Live series arrived in our mailbox. And who's at the top of the list?
Yup, Paula Disbrowe and Robb Walsh, the Texas cookbook writers who were featured in our May 2 Taste cover story, "Chowing Down."
Paula's the Hill Country chef and writer behind Cowgirl Cuisine (Morrow, $29.95). Robb, a two-time James Beard Award winner, is the Houston Press' restaurant critic and author of The Texas Cowboy Cookbook (Broadway Books, $17.95). They are good friends, and they're both very amusing conversationalists as well as skilled writers.
So it's logical that Arts & Letters Live is bringing the two in on April 14 for a "Laugh Your Lunch Off" program, with a lunch buffet and cook-off at the DMA's Seventeen Seventeen restaurant. That'll be followed by a program with the writers in Horchow Auditorium, and then by a book signing.
Advance reservations ($45) are required for the 11 a.m. luncheon, and tickets ($30) are required for the 12:30 p.m. program. Tickets to Arts & Letters Live events are on sale to the general public by mail-order only through Dec. 28. After Jan. 2, tickets may also be purchased by telephone: 214-922-1818, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To print an order form from the DMA website, see www.DallasMuseumofArt.org/ALL and click on Tickets.