Sensory Storytellers: Meet Jarrett Melendez, Chef's Kiss

Meet the author, enjoy a Q&A, refreshments & book signing!

Join us for our FIRST Author event for our new Sensory Storytellers series at Curio's Lab! This series will feature cookbook writers, artists, chefs and literary leaders in our intimate lab space. Attendees can expect a personalized event (only 25 guests!), including spiced refreshments.

JOIN US OCT. 27th for Q&A event with award winning graphic novelist, Jarrett Melendez and our own Josh Mamaclay! Your ticket includes a SIGNED copy of Chef's Kiss, plus the optional add-on of our collaboration spice mix, Watson's Autumn Spice Mix!

About the book, Chef's Kiss:

Watch things start to really heat up in the kitchen in this sweet, queer graphic novel! Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something…anything…related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won’t be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience. It turns out he doesn’t even have enough experience to be a garbage collector! But when Ben stumbles upon a “Now Hiring—No Experience Necessary” sign outside a restaurant, he jumps at the chance to land his first job. Plus, he can keep looking for a writing job in the meantime. He’s actually not so bad in the kitchen, but he will have to pass a series of cooking tests to prove he’s got the culinary skills to stay on full-time. But it’s only temporary…right? When Ben begins developing a crush on Liam, one of the other super dreamy chefs at the restaurant, and when he starts ditching his old college friends and his old writing job plans, his career path starts to become much less clear.

----- Also available will be Melendez's book My Pokémon Baking Book

-----Jarrett Melendez grew up on the mean, deer-infested streets of Bucksport, Maine. A former chef and line cook, Jarrett has worked in restaurants, diners, and bakeries throughout New England and Mexico, and got instruction on Japanese home cooking from some very patient host mothers when he lived in Tokyo and Hiroshima. He’s been a professional writer since 2009, but started working as a recipe developer and food writer in 2020. His work has appeared on Bon Appétit, Saveur, Epicurious, and Food52, and he is the author of My Pokémon Baking Book, and The Comic Kitchen, an upcoming fully illustrated, comic-style cookbook. When not cooking and writing about food, Jarrett is also an award-winning comic book writer. His best-known work is Chef’s Kiss from Oni Press, which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and a GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Graphic Novel, in addition to being nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens. Jarrett has contributed to the Ringo-nominated All We Ever Wanted, Full Bleed, Young Men in Love, and Murder Hobo: Chaotic Neutral. He is currently working on Tales of the Fungo: The Legend of Cep, a middle-grade fantasy adventure, to be published by Andrews McMeel. He lives in Massachusetts with his collection of Monokuro Boo plush pigs.

Date/Time: Friday, October 27th, 6-7pm

Cost: $25

Location: The Lab @ Curio, 2267 Mass Ave in Cambridge

Age: Open to all ages!

Questions? Email us at [email protected]

Location & Parking: Metered parking available along Mass Ave or outside of Davis Square.

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