An Evening with Adeena Sussman and Chef Alon Shaya at The Source

• Light buffet reception including selections from Adeena’s book, Zariz: 100 Easy, Breezy, Tel Aviv-y Recipes
• Your own copy the book, with an opportunity for Adeena to personalize it
• A conversation between Adeena Sussman and Chef Alon Shaya about the book
• Audience Live Q&A session with our hosts
• Invitation to join us for a special dinner with the chefs at Safta after the event!

Adeena Sussman is the author of the New York Times best selling cookbook Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals From My Table To Yours, which was released September 5, 2023. It is the followup to Sababa, which was named a Best Fall 2019 cookbook by The New York Times, Bon Appetit, and Food & Wine. Her latest book, Zariz: 100 Easy, Breezy, Tel Aviv-y Recipes, will be released on April 28th, 2026.

The co-author of 15 cookbooks, Adeena’s three most recent collaborations, including Cravings and Cravings: Hungry For More with Chrissy Teigen, were New York Times best-sellers.

A lifelong visitor to Israel who has been writing about that country’s food culture for almost 20 years, Adeena lives, cooks and writes in Tel Aviv, where she lives in the shadow of that city’s Carmel Market with her husband, Jay Shofet.

Alon Shaya is Chef-Partner of Pomegranate Hospitality, which includes Saba in New Orleans, Safta in Denver, and both Miss River and Chandelier Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans. Born in Israel, raised in Philadelphia, and a proud New Orleanian, Alon has always had a deep love and appreciation for food and the singular way restaurants anchor their communities.

Alon, a multiple James Beard Foundation award-winner, is the author of Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel. Part memoir and part cookbook, Shaya shares Alon’s deeply personal journey of survival and discovery, exploring the evolution of a cuisine and the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. His next book, Memories of a Good Meal: Recipes and Stories of Resilience from the Holocaust and World War II, will be released in October 2026.

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