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The Lifestyle Tent
The Festival’s Lifestyle Tent will feature writers with new books about parenting, home & garden, nutrition, design, and health. Sirius Satellite Radio host Josh Dorfman will talk about his book The Lazy Environmentalist; you can learn from Hal Edward Runkel how to engage in ScreamFree Parenting; and Whole Foods’ Global VP Margaret Wittenberg will present her book New Good Food, among many other authors. Check out Saturday’s lineup as well as Sunday’s.
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The Cooking Tent
Saturday, November 3 & Sunday, November 4
Festival Grounds on 11th Street
This year’s cooking tent features Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi, former White House pastry chef, Roland Mesnier and Rebecca Rather presenting City Christmas, Country Christmas, New Orlean's own Susan Spicer as well as Paula Lambert, NPR’s the Kitchen Sisters, Efisio Farris and a Cast-Iron Cookoff between Paula Disbrowe and Robb Walsh. Cookbook sales and signings will follow each presentation.
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Hecho en Tejas: A Celebration of Texas Mexican Literature
Saturday, November 3, 2007
House Chamber, State Capitol, 10am
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Dagoberto Gilb are being honored for their contributions to Texas Literature, the master accordian player Santiago Jimenez, Jr. is playing, and Hinojosa-Smith and Gilb will read from Gilb's groundbreaking anthology, Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, as will Diana López and Macarena Hernández. The winners of the Festival’s statewide UIL Writing Contest will also be acknowledged.
UIL Writing Contest sponsored by Herman, Howry & Breen
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