Cookbook Signing + Tasting with Becky Diamond: The Gilded Age Cookbook

Name: Cookbook Signing + Tasting with Becky Diamond: The Gilded Age Cookbook
Start: 2025-10-18T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Scholar Bookstore | Harrisburg, PA

The Harrisburg Book Festival is honored to welcome acclaimed cookbook author Becky Diamond to the Midtown Scholar Bookstore for a meet & greet, signing, and tasting on her new cookbook, The Gilded Age Cookbook.
Registration is not required; there will be a free tasting of select recipes from the cookbook, while supplies last. Purchasing the author’s new book from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore is required for entry to the signing line.
About the Book:
The American Gilded Age (1868 to 1900) and its extreme extravagance continue to be a source of wonder and fascination, particularly for foodies. The style and excessiveness of this era has ties to modern popular culture through books, films, and television shows, including The Alienist and the Julian Fellowes TV series The Gilded Age, on HBO.
The Gilded Age Cookbook transports the reader back in time to lavish banquet tables set with snow-white linen tablecloths, delicate china, and sparkling crystal glasses. Cuisine featuring rich soups, juicy roasts, and luscious desserts come to life through historic images and artistic photography. Gilded Age details and entertaining stories of celebrities from the era—the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goelets, and Rockefellers—are melded with historic menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens.
About the Author:
Becky Libourel Diamond has had a varied career combining writing and research. Her latest book is The Gilded Age Cookbook, published by Globe Pequot in August 2023. Her second book, The Thousand Dollar Dinner, tells the unique story of a nineteenth century “Top Chef”-style competition between Philadelphia restauranteur James Parkinson and the Delmonico family of New York. The result was a luxurious seventeen course feast that helped launch fine restaurant dining in America as we know it today. She is also the author of Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s Cooking School, a successful nineteenth century pasty chef who also ran an innovative cooking school for young woman - a Philadelphia first.