Events

August 29, 2023
6:30 –  8:30 p.m.
Tickets $30

Kitchen Lingo
2116 East 4th Street
Long Beach, CA, 90814


Have you ever wanted to write a cookbook, but didn’t know where to start or what to expect from the process? Get the inside scoop and participate in a discussion while learning from both the point of view of a cookbook author and the point of view of a cookbook editor. 

Please join Kitchen Lingo Books as they welcome cookbook author Natasha MacAller (Vanilla Table, Spice Health Heroes, The Taipa Salt Pig-The Recipes), and cookbook editor, Linda Ruggeri (Modernist Pizza, La Cocina Casera Mexicana), as they discuss the do’s and don’ts of writing a cookbook, from coming up with an original idea and putting it into a proposal, to writing, testing, photographing, and selling the finished manuscript. 

You’ll be able to ask questions and meet other people interested in writing cookbooks. 

Signed copies of Natasha’s books will be available for purchase and personalization. 

In order to make this a personal experience, there will be only fifteen seats available. Book your tickets now from Kitchen Lingo Books (shop@kitchenlingobooks.com). 

This is a private event, purchasing tickets in advance is required, either in person at Kitchen Lingo, or by email: shop@kitchenlingobooks.com

Natasha MacAller is an international chef consultant and the author of three internationally recognized cookbooks: Vanilla Table, Spice Health Heroes, and the recipes for The Taipa Salt Pig- The Recipes. She has received endorsements from author Bee Wilson (Consider The ForkFirst Bite), and Chef Jacques Pépin; and she has collaborated with José Andrés, Nancy Silverton, Jonathan Waxman, Yotam Ottolenghi, Gale Gand, Duff Goldman, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Sherry Yard and Elizabeth Falkner to name just a few. Natasha is currently working on her fourth book.

Linda Ruggeri is a freelance editor based in Los Angeles. She works in all areas of publishing, including: writing, developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, translating, self-publishing, and book marketing. She specializes in memoirs, cookbooks, gardening books, and how-to guides. Her clients include first-time authors, experienced writers, ghostwriters and publishers; she also offers Spanish translation, author guidance, and manuscript evaluation services. 


Season To Taste - A Cookbook Conversation

March 20, 2020
10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Bistro Violet School
1121 Glendon Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90024


Due to the Covid 19 outbreak hitting hard the state of California in March of 2020 that closed its borders and changed lives, loves, careers and cancelled cooking classes.

International bestselling author Natasha MacAller knows how to cook and bake her way into anyone’s heart. A former professional ballerina, Natasha brings the same diligence and precision to the kitchen as she did to dancing. Vanilla Table, The Essence Of Exquisite Cooking From The World’s Best Chefs, is a celebration of delicious and intriguing recipes showcasing vanilla in over 100 dishes. In this 2-hour class, learn to cook a sweet and savory feast with Natasha as your guide!

Class includes libations and a meal, recipes, coffee and tea.


The Vanilla Table with Natasha MacAller

September 22, 2018
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Five Four Studios
54 Oldfield Road
Salford, England, M5 4LZU


Please join me at Manchester’s first wellness festival Saturday 22nd September 2018 at Five Four Studios

Tickets on sale now 
Float Festival

“If cooking is an art and baking is a science, Natasha MacAller is a chef who flawlessly dances in both worlds. Natasha will be joining Float in the Reading Room, for a deep dive into her new book, Spice Health Heroes, an extended love letter to a range of delicious spices.” 

Float Wellness Festival


March 15, 2018
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
This is event is FREE.

Omnivore Books on Food
3885A Cesar Chavez Street
San Francisco, CA, 94131


. . . Natasha MacAller and Emily Luchetti, Chief Pastry Officer, Big Night Restaurant Group

This beautiful cookbook, Spice Health Heroes, includes a detailed study of the history, myths and traditional uses of spices. It examines the culinary, nutritional and medical applications of everyday (and more exotic) spices found in your pantry. Medical and nutritional claims are backed by contributions from an impressive team of international medical professionals and institutions. Natasha will also be signing her cookbook.

If you would like a signed copy of a book from one of our events, but are unable to attend, just call the shop at (415) 282-4712, we’ll be happy to take care of it for you.

In Conversation with …


December 16, 2017
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Nosh Food Market
1993 State Highway 10
Waipapa, Northland, 0295
NZ


Natasha is thrilled to be back in the Bay of Islands, NZ and will be signing and personalizing copies of her cookbooks Spice Health Heroes (now available worldwide in 9 countries) and Vanilla Table. Come join us! Saturday Dec 16th from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. We will be serving tastings from both books at the exciting new Nosh Food Market Kerikeri. 

Nosh Food Market Kerikeri Event


September 26, 2017
7:00 – 9:15 p.m.
£65

Divertimenti Knightsbridge
Divertimenti Cookery School
227-229 Brompton Road
London, England, SW3 2EP
UK
Phone: 020 7581 2764


Spices are celebrated throughout all cuisines for the depth of flavour that they bring to dishes. With the huge health and nutritional benefits that they also add now beginning to be recognised by the Western world, join Natasha MacAller as she shares recipes from Spice Health Heroes: Unlock the power of spice for flavour and wellbeing (Jacqui Small LLP, October 2016, Photography by Manja Wachsmuth). Not only will the dishes be flavourful simple food packed with fresh spices, but Natasha will also share tips and quotes from the medical doctors she worked with for the book about the health properties of spices. Recipes will include ‘Raw Beetroot Fennel and Apple Crunch Salad with Cardamom, Cumin and Fennel seeds’, ‘Spice Hero Hibiscus and Citrus Crusted Prawns’, ‘Sweet Potato Agrodolce with Basil, Rosemary and Turmeric’ and more. Come and taste and learn that there is more to a night of spice than a good chicken tikka! 

For more details visit: DIVERTIMENTI COOKERY SCHOOL  

Divertimenti Cookery School demo with
Natasha MacAller


September 16, 2017
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
£5 Entrance
£10 Demo

Nosh Food Market
1993 State Highway 10
Waipapa, Northland, 0295
NZ


BARNES FOOD FAIR, sponsored by Savills, will take place on Saturday 16 September, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Barnes Green. Tickets are £5 each, free for Under 16’s. Barnes Food Fair is a BCA fundraising event. The nominated charity for 2017 is Barnes Methodist Church Roof Appeal. For more information visit BARNES FOOD FAIR.

Natasha MacAller will be one of four chefs included in a wonderful line-up of Cookery Demonstrations taking place throughout the day at The OSO. She will be speaking about recipes from her new books on Spices and VanillaBOOK NOW 

Tickets are £10 and Chef Natasha's demo will be from 2-3 p.m.

Barnes Food Fair 2017


June 24, 2017
7:00  – 11:00 p.m.


Chef Natasha MacAller will be one of many Five Star chefs that will bring their exceptional culinary talents to 2017 FIVE STAR SENSATION in Cleveland hosted by Chef Michael Symon on June 24, the region’s premiere food and wine event benefiting University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center. A photo (left) from last year’s event of Natasha ready to plate up her double dessert course representing Sausal El Segundo with her signature Sticky Spanish date cake with Bourbon caramel and spiced pecans and Rhubarb Ginger Gazpacho & Buttermilk Panna Cotta from her first book Vanilla Table.

For more details on the event visit: 2017 Five Star Sensation

“Spices are a wonderful way to not only improve the flavour of the food you cook but also increase the potential health benefits. Spices provide natural flavours that contain a variety of phytochemicals, many of which are being studied today for their health benefits. Natasha’s book Spice Health Heroes is a fantastic resource for patients wanting to learn how to improve the health benefits of the food they are eating every day.”

–Richard Lee, MD
CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland Ohio
Medical Director, Integrative and Supportive Oncology Program, UH Seidman Cancer Center

Five Star Sensation


May 12, 2017
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

The Keauhou Store
78-7010 Mamalahoa Highway
Holualoa, Hawaii 96725
Phone: (808) 322-5203


Join Chef Natasha MacAller at The Keauhou Store in Holualoa, HI – for a book signing and tastes from her new cookbook Spice Health Heroes.

The book includes a detailed study of the history, myths and traditional uses of spices. The first part of the book examines the culinary, nutritional and medical applications of the everyday and more exotic spices found in your pantry. Medical and nutritional claims are backed by contributions from an impressive team of international medical professionals and institutions.

The Keauhou Store - Book Signing & Tastes


May 6-8, 2017
10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Seattle, WA


Chef Natasha MacAller will be attending the 24th Annual WCR National Conference in Seattle, May 6-8, 2017 – Join us at the Table. Eat. Drink. Lead. The session will take place Monday, May 8 from 10-10:45 a.m.

A description of the event:
Modern Solutions: Perfect Idaho® Potato Pairings with Spices and Healthy Flavors Idaho® baked potatoes with butter and sour cream served at a steakhouse, French fries and ketchup, mashed potatoes and brown gravy are traditional match-ups… but what’s around the next corner? Listen to menu ideations come to life as Chef Natasha MacAller collaborates with the Idaho potato team and shares her knowledge of beautifully spice infused recipes inspired by her new book, 
Spice Health Heroes. Watch as she creates healthy twists on classic pairings and offers solutions to bringing America’s favorite vegetable to the center stage.

Natasha MacAller, Dancing Chef
Don Odiorne, aka Dr. Potato at the Idaho Potato Commission
Jamie Bowen, Idaho Potato Commission

24th Annual WCR National Conference in Seattle


March 21, 2017
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Paper Plus Kerikeri
72 Kerikeri Road
Kerikeri, Northland, 0230
NZ


Join Chef Natasha MacAller, author of Spice Health Heroes, at Paper Plus in Kerikeri this Tuesday, March 21 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Meet Natasha and enjoy some fabulous tastings from her book. 

Book Signing & Free Tasting


March 18, 2017
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Milly's Kitchen Ponsonby
273 Ponsonby Road
Auckland, 1011
NZ
Phone: 09 376 1550


You are invited to Milly’s Kitchen (Ponsonby store) on Saturday, 18 March as they welcome Chef Natasha for a special tasting and book signing from her latest cookbook, Spice Health Heroes.

 *You can find us in the Three Lamps shopping area in Ponsonby

Milly's Kitchen Tasting & Book Signing


March 18, 2017
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Sabato
57 Normanby Rd
Mt. Eden, Auckland, 1024
NZ
Phone: +64 9 630 8751


Join Sabato on Saturday, 18 March for a special in-store book signing of Natasha MacAller's latest book: Spice Health Heroes. Come and meet Chef Natasha and taste one of the fantastic recipes from her new book!

Sabato In-store Book Signing & Tasting


December 17, 2016
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Macy's Union Square
170 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Chef Linda Shiue, MD

Macy's Union Square, San Francisco invite you to discover the many ways spices can give your favorite dish a healthy kick. Join Natasha MacAller, chef and author of the cookbook Spice Health Heroes, and physician and chef Linda Shiue, MD, Director of Culinary Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. Chef MacAller will discuss the health benefits of spices and, together with Dr. Shiue, show how to make an easy and nutritious recipe using a few of their favorite seasonings. Try a tasty sample for yourself and take the recipe home to make for family and friends! Plus, yours with any $35 or more Home department purchase - receive a personalized copy of Spice Health Heroes.*

Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, serving up good health! For more recipe ideas, visit 
foodforhealth.kp.org

*One per customer, while supplies last and time permits. Purchase must be made at Macy's Union Square on 12/17/2016.

Spice Things Up at Macy's!


November 3, 2016
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

The Food Studio
Medicine Garden
Downside Road
Cobham, Surrey, KT11 3LU
UK 


Chef Natasha MacAller

Come and meet Natasha MacAller, ballerina-turned chef, presenting her new cookery book SPICE HEALTH HEROES and demonstrating some of the recipes from it. In the book Natasha explores the culinary, nutritional and medicinal uses of more than 30 spices found in your kitchen cupboard, from the everyday to the more exotic. Each of the spices then star in over 100 mouth-watering recipes.  

Natasha will demo a few of the beautifully spice infused recipes from her book, and talk about the health benefits of including spices in your cooking. The event is FREE - please come join us!!!

The Food Studio is based at the 
Medicine Garden, Downside Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 3LU. 

For information and to book online visit Blid & Hatton Gatherings

Meet author of New Spice Health Heroes: Natasha MacAller


January 9, 2016
11:00 a.m. –  1:00 p.m.

Surfas
3309 Hyland Ave
Costa Mesa, CA 92626


Join Surfas in welcoming Chef Natasha MacAller to our Test Kitchen.  Chef Natasha’s book, Vanilla Table, will convince chefs and cooks alike that vanilla is anything but plain. With over 100 dishes including starters, mains, brunch, desserts and more, you will never think of vanilla the same way again! Chef Natasha’s book also includes collaborations with several international chefs (including Jonathan Waxman, Jim Dodge, Alan Wong, Duff Goldman, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sherry Yard, Nancy Silverton, and Gina DePalma). 

You will not want to miss Chef Natasha demonstrating:

  • Chicken Stroganoff with Chantrelles and Vanilla

  • Smoked Trout Johnnycake Stacks

  • Banana Polenta Upside Down Cake

Vanilla Table is a complete course in how to use the world’s most delicious and adaptable spice – from savory appetizers and delicious entrees to indulgent desserts and decadent drinks.

Recipes and samples will be provided. Reservations will not be taken for this event so please arrive early as seating is limited. Book signing will commence after the demonstration. Visit 
Surfas for more details.

Vanilla Table Cookbook Signing and Demonstration with Chef Natasha MacAller


December 4, 2015
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Read it and Eat
2142 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614


Expand your senses and your perception of one of the world’s most versatile ingredients in this chef demonstration and tasting with Natasha MacAller, the author of Vanilla Table. MacAller’s book puts vanilla on display, showing that its fragrant and captivating scent makes it a must-have in every kitchen. The book contains more than 100 sweet and savory recipes, including 32 dishes carefully curated from 33 internationally-acclaimed chefs. Free event December 4 at Read It & Eat, MacAller will be making Caramelized Garlic & Ricotta Custard Cups and an Anna Pavlova dessert.

Chef Demo and Tasting: Vanilla Table with Natasha MacAller