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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Maura Connelly / 843-379-7025maura@patconroyliterarycenter.orgThe Conroy Center and the Anchorage 1770 Inn to Hosta Southern Living Inspired Event: Cook the BookWith James Beard Award-winning Chef and Cookbook Author Cynthia GraubartBEAUFORT, SC - Southern Living, the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the Anchorage 1770Inn are excited to announce the first Cook The Book: Sharing Recipes, Wine & Words, aspecial event to be held Saturday, May 19, from 4:00%u20139:00 p.m. at the Anchorage 1770(1103 Bay St., Beaufort, SC). The inaugural Cook the Book will be presented by renownedsouthern chef Cynthia Graubart, and will focus on recipes from her recent cookbook SundaySuppers (2017). The event has three components: Cynthia will give a cooking demonstrationof three recipes from Sunday Suppers assisted by Anchorage chef Byron Landis, followed bya book and apron signing with wine and appetizers on the veranda, and culminating with afour-course dinner complete with hand-selected wine pairings in the dining room.This new venture was inspired by Pat Conroy%u2019s passion for cooking and his perennial searchfor a new recipe. Pat opens his 2004 cookbook with the words, %u201cThe subject of food isnearly a sacred one to me.%u201d His lifelong passion for cooking was first ignited in 1969 andonly became more intense as he grew older. Many of his readers are familiar with anotherquote from his cookbook, %u201ca recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.%u201dCynthia Graubart is an ideal chef to launch the new Cook the Book series, which celebratesfoodways, writing, and fellowship. When Pat first began cooking in earnest, he turned toCynthia%u2019s husband Cliff for guidance. It was 1969 and Pat%u2019s first wife had appointed himfamily chef. He ventured to the Old New York Bookshop in Atlanta, asking for Graubart%u2019shelp. According to Pat%u2019s recollections, Cliff, fearing the Conroy clan demise by starvation,handed Pat an edition of Auguste Escoffier%u2019s cookbook. And so Pat%u2019s culinary adventuresbegan, and he became the epicurean %u2018magician%u2019, the soup %u2018sorcerer%u2019, turning %u201cthe art ofstealing recipes into both a hobby and an art.%u201dCynthia%u2019s newest cookbook, Sunday Suppers extols the virtues of the Sunday supper. Shesays the Sunday %u2018supper%u2019 was different than the Sunday %u2018dinner%u2019, a little less formal, butalways just as comforting because it%u2019s always about family time spent at the dining table. InHosts Ninth Annual March Forth WeekendNow in its ninth year, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center's Annual March Forth weekend will be held on Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2, with educational programs in Beaufort, Port Royal, St. Helena Island, and online. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy's passing on March 4, 2016, by engaging with major themes of Conroy%u2019s writing and teaching life, including social justice, inclusivity, conservation, education, truth telling, and storytelling. Through a combination of both free and ticketed events, March Forth includes a guided nature walk at historic Penn Center, author conversations (in person and virtually), a history presentation, book signings, a catered lunch, a writing workshop, a community literacy read-aloud, and opportunities for tours. The Conroy Center%u2019s Ninth Annual March Forth will include appearances by:%u2022 Ashley Hope P%u00e9rez: YA novelist, educator, advocate, author of Out of Darkness, and editor of Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights%u2022 Kimberly Brock: novelist, past Georgia Author of the Year, and author of The Fabled Earth, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction%u2022 Edda L. Fields-Black, professor of history and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War%u2022 Katherine Freeman: National Park Service Ranger with the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park%u2022 Jake Zadik: Brays Island naturalist, nature photographer, and cofounder of South Carolina Partners of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SCPARC)18 February 2025 | BeaufortLifestyle.comEdda Fields-Black Kimberly Brock