Chef, Author, Farmer: Didi Emmons @ Barcelona Restaurant

Stephanie Webster

Join Barcelona Wine Bar & Restaurant on March 31st for a special evening of food and celebration with Didi Emmons. Emmons, a chef, author, educator and former restaurateur will make a special appearance at Barcelona Fairfield to promote her IACP nominated cookbook Wild Flavors, One Chef’s Transformative Year Cooking from Eva’s Farm.

The cookbook features unusual food that is grown on a farm run by Eva Sommaripa, a renegade 70-year old farmer from southeast Massachusetts, who grows for a variety of notable chefs in New England. 

The evening wil begin with a cocktail hour where guests will have to opportunity to meet with Emmons and peruse signed copies of her latest cookbook. In addition to Barcelona Wine Bar and Restaurant’s regular menu, we will be offering a special a la carte menu featuring specialties from Eva’s farm such as juniper berries, sunchokes, lovage, claytonia and other foraged and cultivated flavors prepared by Barcelona Wine Bar’s Culinary Director, Adam Halberg. 

WHEN: Saturday, March 31, 2012

Cocktail Hour:  5:30pm – 6:30pm

Dinner:  7:00pm

WHERE: Barcelona Wine Bar & Restaurant, 4180 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield, (203) 255-0800

MISC:  Reservations for cocktail party and dinner are required

Contact (203) 255-0800 to make a reservation

 Visit didiemmons.com for more information.