Attend My Global Dinner Party; Send an Indian Kid to School
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
(This also posted at Bark.)
I’m having a party on June 18th at 6 pm and you are invited.
This isn’t just any kind of party, I will host a gathering at my house, but at the same time, all around the world, other people will have the same party—on the same theme. What’s our theme you ask? I’ll tell you, we’re CONNECTING THROUGH FOOD, one of my favorite ways of connecting.
We’re also celebrating the release of Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World (a Three River Press original). Forty-one authors, of whom I am one, tell their stories of adventuring around the world. An additional and very tasty bonus is the thirty-three accompanying recipes. Curried carrot soup anyone? Charred sugar-crusted Salmon? Ginger-cumin roasted chicken? Butternut squash salad from the Seychelles? (Say that three times fast!) Swedish Kladdkaka? If you guessed that the last one is connected to my contribution to the book, you guessed right.
All of the advance and the royalties from the book are being donated to send kids from New Delhi slums to vocational schools. So far, $40,000 has been sent through a Rotary Club in Maryland to a Rotary in New Delhi who will vet and mentor the students. Imagine how many children’s lives we can help change together by buying books, spreading the word, and hosting dinner parties! Each party is important, and hundreds will attract media attention. So please, join us.
Your “ticket” to attend the party is to buy a copy of the book. I have added handy-dandy links to my website for just that purpose: http://www.asamariabradley.com/samples.html. If you live in the Spokane area, please come to my party. Email me at asa(at)asamariabradley(dot)com for directions. If you want to host your own party or find a party in your area, visit the Female Nomad Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/femalenomad and check out the Events and Notes tabs for more details.
To find out more about Rita Golden Gelman, the editor extraordinaire of the project and a true nomad, visit
her site at http://www.ritagoldengelman.com/. Rita hasn’t had a permanent address for twenty-three years. In Tales of a Female Nomad (Crown 2001) she tells the story of selling her possessions and becoming a nomad—living in mud huts, in royal palaces, and on a magical island. This book is still going strong and ignoring a warning from her publisher, Rita included her e-mail address. The last line is: “I can’t wait to hear from you.” She was flooded with e-mails from readers worldwide who offered guest rooms, couches, meals…. and their own stories of connecting around the world. Many of those stories and more of Rita’s adventures are collected in Female Nomad and Friends.
Hope to see you on the 18th, in person or in a photo or video on the Facebook site. The site’s Notes section has recipes for the dishes I mentioned above. Random House (of which Three River Press is an imprint) has posted the opening chapter of the book: https://randomhouse.box.net/shared/c3tdisusojand this virtual blog tour has excerpts from some of the stories: http://bookpromotionservices.com/2010/05/17/female-nomad-tour/#comment-265:
