Cake & Conversation with Natasha Pickowicz

Join us as we celebrate Natasha Pickowicz’s fantastic new cookbook “More Than Cake!”

Natasha will be joined in conversation by artist Georgia Hilmer, to speak about the book, as well as the intersection of food, art, and community action.

The Talbott & Arding pastry team will prepare a feast of recipes from “More Than Cake”, to be served alongside local pet nat style ciders.

Books will be available for purchase either with your ticket or on-site during the event, and time will be set aside for Natasha to sign your copy!

A portion of ticket sales will be donated to Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood.

Natasha Pickowicz is a New York City–based chef and writer. She is a three-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist.

 Much of her pastry work explores the relationship between baking and social justice, including ongoing collaborations with seminal New York City institutions like Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, God’s Love We Deliver, the Brigid Alliance, and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, for whom she produced a massive city-wide bake sale, raising more than $150,000 between 2017 and 2019.

 Currently, Pickowicz runs the pastry pop-up Never Ending Taste, which has been held at NYC’s Superiority Burger, Brooklyn’s The Four Horsemen, the American-Vietnamese bakery Ba. n B., the Taiwanese tearoom T. Company, Los Angeles’s Kismet, and the legendary Chino Farm in California.

 Pickowicz’s recipes and writing have been published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food & Wine, New York magazine, Cherry Bombe, and many other publications. Follow her on Instagram at @natashapickowicz

Georgia Hilmer is a writer and photographer based in upstate New York, where she lives in an old school with her husband and tends to a sprawling flower garden. Last year she published FLORA-Z, a book of botanical illustrations by 26 different artists that forms a floral alphabet. The sequel, FLORA-Z 2, features a new set of artists and flowers and will be released this summer.