Chef Rossi for The Raging Skillet
Monday, June 12
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Kramerbooks & Afterwords Café
1517 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036

Come celebrate pride week with Chef Rossi! Sponsored by GLOE – GLBTQ Outreach & Engagement at the Edlavitch DCJCC.

Profits will be donated to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit dedicated to providing crisis intervention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and questioning young people ages 13 to 24.

http://www.thetrevorproject.org/section/about

Samples from Chef Rossi’s cookbook will be distributed during the event!

The Raging Skillet is one woman’s story of cooking her way through some of life’s biggest challenges in New York City’s most unlikely kitchens. Talking her way into any cooking job she could get, a self-taught and self-made Rossi ended up owning one of the most sought-after catering companies in the city. The book features anecdotes from a life of food plus recipes—ranging from pizza bagels to tuna tartare—to close each section. This tasty memoir shows us how Chef Rossi found a way to pay tribute to her roots while staying true to herself

Chef Rossi grew up “orthodox light” (her family kept the meat and dairy dishes separate but ate McDonalds’ fish sandwiches). A rebellious daughter, she was shipped off from her Hungarian Yiddish family to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Brooklyn. Feeling restless, Rossi broke free from religious and familial constraints to create a life of her own. What began as a revolt against the microwave turned into a quest to make food that is fearless, fun, and, most importantly, delicious.