About this Event
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We’re thrilled to welcome author and food & wine reporter Tarajia Morrell to Bedford Books for a conversation about her new culinary memoir, Desire Feeds the Feast. She’ll be joined by Bedford’s own Isabel Cowles Murphy.
Copies of her book will be available for sale and signing, and light refreshments will be served. Ticket price includes a $20 shopping credit to use at the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Before she understood herself, Tarajia Morrell understood flavor.
Born to one of New York’s most celebrated wine families, Tarajia Morrell grew up at the table, where conversation was wine-soaked and food was the love language—a merchant’s daughter amid the Manhattan elite.
In this lush, lyrical memoir, the James Beard Award-winning writer traces a life shaped by hunger—for beauty, for love, for pleasure, and for belonging. From the electric excess of the late-’90s New York City club scene to Hollywood tables where she served celebrities, Tarajia moved through the world restless but hopeful, unsure of what would come next.
Wherever she found herself, the pleasures of food guided her. The brine and brightness of ceviche on a Uruguayan beach. The intoxicating sprawl of Barcelona’s food markets. A perfectly ripe plum eaten over the sink by her graceful mother. Through deep heartbreak and loss, it was food that kept Tarajia tethered and whispered of who she was.
Desire Feeds the Feast is a boldly written memoir about the ache of lost loves, the comfort of a perfect bite, and the hard-won victory of finding home where least expected.
ABOUT TARAJIA MORRELL
Tarajia Morrell is a native New Yorker who grew up at the table. Her food and wine reporting and essays have appeared in WSJ. Magazine, T Magazine, Food & Wine, Departures, and Cherry Bombe, among other publications. Morrell is the co-author of James Beard Award-winner Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More, with Fatima Ali, and author of Soul of New York: A Guide to 30 Exceptional Experiences. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter.
ABOUT ISABEL COWLES MURPHY
Isabel Cowles Murphy is a former Domestic Violence prosecutor turned literary novelist. She also writes The Noble Try, a Substack Bestseller. Isabel lives in Bedford, New York, with her husband and four sons.
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Bedford Books, 13 Court Road, Bedford, United States
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