Cookbook author event: "Wintersweet: Seasonal Desserts to Warm the Home" by Tammy Donroe Inman

"The seasonally minded cook will delight in the ingenuity of this tome dedicated to the dark days of winter." —Publisher's Weekly

Join us for a presentation and booksigning of "Wintersweet: Seasonal Desserts to Warm the Home" by Tammy Donroe. Our first cookbook author event will feature free samples, free coffee, and plenty of laughs. Free admission. Signed books will be available for purchase.

Who says the winter months have to be bleak and barren? Author Tammy Donroe sees this season as an opportunity to stay inside, fire up the oven, and produce decadent desserts from the bounty of wholesome winter ingredients. Wintersweet encourages readers to make use of fresh, local ingredients for warming seasonal desserts. While summer farmers’ markets are always overflowing with ripe produce, there’s plenty to be had from November to March: squashes and pumpkins, parsnips and carrots, apples, pears, citrus of all types, and feel-good ingredients like nuts, cheese, and chocolate.
The fresh and rustic recipes in Wintersweet push the envelope of traditional winter desserts like pumpkin or apple pies with such delicacies as Pear Cranberry Clafouti, Spicy Prune Cake with Penuche Frosting, Tangelo Sorbet, and Goat Cheese Cake with Dried Cherry Compote. Each chapter is devoted to different ingredients, ranging from Persimmons, Pomegranates, and Cranberries to Citrus, Cheese, and Dried Fruits, allowing readers to experiment with new and exciting ingredients for complex and delicious flavors. They taste even better when they can be found near your own backyard; Donroe provides resources for finding the best local farmers’ markets and agricultural centers near you. Perfect for holiday gatherings or to warm the belly on a cold night, Wintersweet is the perfect dessert companion to make the year’s coldest season a bit more festive.

Tammy Donroe Inman is a Boston-area writer, mother, cook, obsessive blogger, pseudo-photographer, mushroom grower, cryptogram lover, and vagabond public school teacher. She's been called other things, too. A graduate of Tufts University and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, Inman sharpened her knives in the test kitchen of Cook's Illustrated magazine and the PBS television show America's Test Kitchen. After that, she worked as a writer and editor for Boston Magazine. Her blog, Food on the Food, gets thousands of hits each week, and has been praised by The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Edible Boston, and Saveur.com. Inman's work has also been featured in Yankee Magazine, Tufts Magazine, Home & Garden, Elegant Wedding, Cape Cod Life, Culinate, BlogHer, and Serious Eats. Her first cookbook, Wintersweet: Seasonal Desserts to Warm the Home, is out now by Running Press.