12TH BBQ ON THE RIVER PADUCAH

I will sign my TN and KY cookbooks at the Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway just across the Gazebo as part of Paducah's 12th Annual BBQ on the River this weekend.

BBQ on the River, A Community Charitable Event! Can you think of a better way to spend an early fall weekend than enjoying great BBQ, lively entertainment, exquisite crafts, a charming downtown and a great time with friends. Come join us in Paducah, KY for three great days of BBQ Bliss as 50 plus BBQ teams from Western Kentucky and beyond cook up over 60 tons of meat in hopes of taking home the coveted Grand Champions trophy. Along with delicious mouthwatering food and fabulous fun you will be helping out many local charitable organization.

Make your plans now to be in Paducah, September 23 thru 25, 2010 for our 16th Ever BBQ on the River.

The cookbooks are also available in the Paducah area at:

Market 315 proceeds going to Paducah Cooperative Ministry

BBQ & More proceeds going to BBQ on the River Fundraiser

Lourdes Hospital Gift Shop proceeds going to Auxiliary

Purple Toad Winery proceeds going to St. Mary's High School

Western Baptist Hospital proceeds going to Auxiliary

And in Western Kentucky:

Ice House Gallery, Mayfield Proceeds going to Graves Co. Art Guild

Miss Scarletts, Grand Rivers proceeds going to Grand River Tourism

Moors Marina, Benton proceeds going to local tourism orgnization

The Market Place, Draffenville proceeds going to Marshall Co, Scholarship Fund

The Kentucky cookbooks are also available at Kentucky State Parks including Columbus Belmont, Kenlake State Park, Kentucky Dam Village, Lake Barkley State Park

ICE HOUSE GALLERY GOURD PATCH FESTIVAL

2010 FESTIVAL WINNER

SEPTEMBER 17, 9 TO 4

On Saturday, September 17, Mayfield will once again pay homage to the humble gourd. The seventh annual Gourd Patch Festival, sponsored in cooperation with the City of Mayfield, the Mayfield Tourism Commission, and the Mayfield/Graves County Art Guild, will celebrate the modest cucurbit with an international gourd art exhibition, gourd vendors and crafters, music and dancing, children’s activities, a gourd racecar derby, concessions, a farmer’s market, and other activities. Simultaneously, the Mayfield/Graves County Art Guild’s Ice House Gallery will be hosting its annual All About Gourds exhibition, which is the focal point of the festival. Quality craftsmanship and creative abandon abound in this year’s exhibit. Now in its nineth year, the show features over 75 pieces by 28 artists from 11 different states as well as an artist from India. Festival activities will be centered between the Ice House Gallery at the corner of North and North 8th Streets and Regions Bank on North 7th Street in Mayfield from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday.

I participated in this last year signing the Kentucky cookbook. I have been invited back to do a signing of the Tennessee Cookbook, "Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities."

MELLWOOD ART FAIR BOOK SINGING

MELLWOOD ART FAIR

BOOK SINGING

Scooter Davidson, Executive Director of Mellwood Art Center has invited me to do a book signing at this years Art Fair. As a fundraiser for St. Joseph Children’s Home. Stop by BOOTH 160 and pick up a copy of “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities” cookbook with proceeds going to St. Joseph. The cookbook will make a perfect Christmas Present and at the same time help a wonderful organization. "Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities" will also be available.

BOOTH 160 is directly across from the parking area on the end near the children’s arts and crafts. Beside St. Joseph’s booth!

LOOK FOR THE

CELEBRITY COOKBOOK TENT!

BOOK SIGNING SEPT 1

BOOK SIGNING SEPT 1

WHO:

Dr. Susan Wiltshire has graciously accepted an invitation by Christopher Burawa, executive director of the APSU Center of Excellence to co-sign my cookbook as a fundraiser for the Center. Dr. Wiltshire contributed a recipe that she makes and said was her daughter’s favorite.

Dr. Susan Ford Wiltshire is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and served as department Chair for 9 years. The Tennessee author is a graduate of Columbia University and written numerous books including “Public and Private in Vergil’s Aeneid”; “Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights”; “Seasons of Grief and Grace”; “Athena’s Disguises; and Windmills and Bridges”: “Poems Near and Far”.

She has served on the Board of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

WHERE:

Ingredients For The Gormet In You will soon be celebrating their 2 year anniversary in business in Historic Downtown Clarksville, TN located on Strawberry Alley. They offer a wide range of items including kitchen accessories, food items, wine supplies, cookbooks, and cooking classes.

WHEN:

Come join us Sept. 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. for a presentation and book signing of the cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities” BY BOTH Dr. Wiltshire and me, author Pamela Whinnery

1ST Thursday Gallery Walk and Book Signing, Clarksville, TN

September 1st is the start of a full 2 months of book signings. Everywhere for Evansville, IN to Norris, TN

It is going to be great fun!

First Thursdays in Clarksville, TN will kick things off.

The signing will be at a specialty kitchen (cooking) store called Ingredients in downtown Clarksville. The address is:

100 Strawberry Alley

Clarksville, TN 37040-3837

(931) 542-6935.

The signing will begin at 5 PM and run to 8 PM. Christopher Burawa Director of the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University invited me to do the book signing as a fundraiser for their scholarship fund.

THE EXCITING PART ABOUT THIS IS: Dr. Susan Wiltshire a Tennessee author and Classics Chair for Vanderbilt University is co-signing the cookbooks. She is one of the individuals, who graciously contributed a recipe for the cookbook.

Stop by on the First Thursday Gallery Walk and pick up a copy of the cookbook. It will make a great Christmas present signed by two authors and it is never too early to start!

Fancy Farm Picnic Book Signing

Fancy Farm Picnic

Book Signing

If you want to be elected in the Bluegrass State, there's only one place to be the first Saturday in August: Fancy Farm, Ky, where old-fashioned politics meets dyed-in-the-wool religion, and the differences are evened out by the glorious, gluttonous, gastronomic magic of charred pork and mutton at the annual Fancy Farm picnic-cum-political rally.

What do political leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell, Gov. Steve Beshears, Sec. of Agriculture Richie Farmer, and Vice-President Alben Barkley have in common? Three will be there this Saturday and one helped organize the political speaking years ago. They also sent a favorite recipe for the Kentucky Cookbook, “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities.” Alben Barkley’s Granddaughter sent the recipe for him.

The cookbook also has recipes from Miley Cyrus, Tom T. Hall, Lance Burton, Naomi Judd, and Kentucky Derby Museum and you can get a copy this weekend at the Fancy Farm Picnic.

Local author Pamela Whinnery will be at the picnic to do a book signing with proceeds going to St. Jerome Parrish. She will also have her recently released cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Cookbooks.”

Both cookbooks have over 300 recipes from local and national personalities, highly visible businesses, artist, writers, athletes, sportsmen, actors, musicians, bed and breakfasts, restaurants, notable events and places. In addition, there are brief notes with each recipe on the contributors, and calendar of events.

COME JOIN THE FUN!

2nd Annual Women Celebrating Women

JULIAN CARROLL

CONVENTION CENTER

Thursday, July 28

2nd Annual

Women Celebrating Women

This should be fun!

Julian Carroll Convention Center 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free event designed to promote women business owners and businesses that cater to women and children as well as provide health, nutrition, education and finance information to women. There will be vendors with jewelry and fashion accessories as well as local restaurants and therapist. There will be a fashion show, cooking demonstrations, a live Zumba class, door prizes, fashion displays, and refreshments. It's all free, educational and fun. Sponsored by Paducah Business and Professional Women.

I have bee invited to do a book signing of both my Kentucky Cookbook and the Tennessee Cookbook, with proceeds going to the Business and Professional Women’s Scholarship Fund.