Author Talk: Becky Selengut, Lettuce Riot

We are excited to welcome local author Becky Selengut to the shop on Monday, November 23rd, for an author talk, Q&A, and book signing to celebrate her new cookbook Lettuce Riot! In her latest work, Becky reimagines salad as the main event with 50 vibrant, protein-rich recipes full of flavor, texture, and color. Becky will be in conversation with local radio personality, host, and author Rachel Belle.

Reservations are non-refundable and can include a signed copy of the $34.99 book. Applicable sales tax and a $2.50 transaction fee are also included. Can't attend but still want a signed or personalized book? Order here for shipping or in-store pickup.

About the book:

Move over, basic iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing; the world is tired of your sad, restrictive, and out-of-season leaves and ready for vibrant texture, diverse ingredients, and riotous color and texture. This cookbook focuses on the pure joy of protein-rich dinner salads in all their forms—asking, “What even is a salad?” (The answer, of course, is you can’t pin salad down! You must surrender to its ineffability.) 

With 50 recipes de-emphasizing a greens-based salad (think dense bean salads and taco salads!), plenty of wry humor and wordplay, protein counts of each recipe backed by a nutritionist, 75 full-color photos, and humorous margin doodles, author Becky Selengut (Misunderstood Vegetables) brings lightness and fun to a once-derided mainstay of the dinner table.

About the author: 

Becky Selengut is an educator and chef based in Seattle. She is the chef on the M/V Thea Foss and the author of five other cookbooks: Misunderstood Vegetables, Good Fish, Shroom, How to Taste, and Not One Shrine. Selengut forages, makes a mean Manhattan, and shares her life with her sommelier wife, April Pogue.