ONE NIGHT ONLY: AN EVENING WITH ROSE LEVY BERANBAUM & ERIN JEANNE MCDOWELL
Hosted by René Bollier, Third-Generation President and Executive Pastry Chef of André's Confiserie Suisse
Two baking legends. One night. A friendship over twenty years in the making.
Erin Jeanne McDowell was sixteen when she first picked up Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible, the book that made her decide to become a baker. Years later, the two would work side by side styling photos for Rose's The Baking Bible, and when Erin published her first cookbook, it was Rose who wrote the foreword. They've been friends and collaborators ever since.
We've been lucky enough to call both Rose and Erin friends over the years, collaborating with Rose on our own version of her Swiss Chocolate Cherry Almond Pound Cake for The Cake Bible's 35th anniversary, and with Erin on our Savory Cracker Bundle to celebrate her cookbook Savory Baking.
So, when their fall book tours just happened to bring them both through Kansas City at the same time, they knew exactly who to call!
Join us for one night only as Rose celebrates her new memoir, Ma Vie en Rose (My Sweet Life), and Erin celebrates her latest cookbook Bake Anything.
Enjoy a discussion between two dear friends, followed by a live Q&A and book signing.
Sweet samplings to be provided, plus additional André’s favorites available for purchase.
$80 | Includes a copy of both books
Limited tickets available
Erin Jeanne McDowell is a Kansas City-based, New York Times bestselling author, recipe developer, and food stylist known for making baking feel approachable at any skill level. She's the author of The Fearless Baker, The Book on Pie, and Savory Baking, and has served as a baking coach on Netflix's The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge. Her newest book, Bake Anything: Essential Recipes and Techniques to Build On for Endless Possibilities, teaches bakers 11 foundational "mother recipes", from pâte à choux to sponge cake, and shows how each one can branch into dozens of new creations, all with Erin's signature confidence-building, step-by-step guidance.
ABOUT ROSE
Rose Levy Beranbaum is the author of fifteen books, including The Cake Bible (inducted into the James Beard and IACP Cookbook Hall of Fame and now in its 56th printing), as well as Rose's Heavenly Cakes, The Baking Bible, and Rose's Christmas Cookies, winner of a James Beard Award. Widely credited with introducing standardized weights, ingredient science, and techniques like reverse creaming to home baking, Rose has spent decades shaping how America bakes. Her new memoir, Ma Vie en Rose: My Sweet Life, traces her path from a food-averse child in postwar New York to one of baking's most influential voices, woven with personal stories from the golden age of American food media and recipes both beloved and never-before-published.
