Paula Lidia And Ina At Lit Fest Rick S Art Meets Plate And More

• Michael Gebert
• Paula Haney of Hoosier Mama

Several of our favorite people in food in Chicago, who also have books out, will appear on the Printers Row Lit Fest’s Good Eating stage this weekend. Paula Haney of Hoosier Mama Pie Company will be doing a cooking demo at 10 AM on Saturday; Jacquy Pfeiffer, who just won a James Beard Award for The Art of French Pastry, will be on the same stage at 11; there will be a conference called Midwestern Writers on Food at 11:45 AM; Lidia Bastianich of Eataly will be there at 12:45 PM; Gale Gand of the new Spritz Burger (among many other things) appears at 1:45 PM; the lovely Ina Pinkney will do a cooking demo at 2:30 PM; and Andrew Zimmern of TV’s Bizarre Foods will be there Sunday at noon. Lots of other food folks make appearances—see the schedule here.

• Growing Home will host an open house at its Wood Street Urban Farm, 5814 S. Wood, from 11 AM to 3 PM on Saturday. There will be refreshments, a farm stand, farm tours, a kids’ gardening workshop, cooking demos, and more. Check it out here.