James Haller to speak at Dover library
DOVER - The Dover Public Library will present local author and chef James Heller as he reads from his latest book “At the End of Ceres Street” at the library on Monday, Aug. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
In this book, Heller reminisces about Portsmouth, NH “back in the day.” Over 50 years ago, chef and author James Haller found his way to Portsmouth. The charm of this small seaport town and its inhabitants grew into an affection tender and wise, which Haller celebrates in this love letter to the city and to the remarkable individuals he had the good fortune to come to know. Includes illustrations and about a dozen of Chef Haller's recipes. This event will be in-person in the library, but also available to watch online from home. Registration is required ONLY if wanting to attend virtually. See the library’s event calendar to register to view the program virtually.
Haller has written numerous articles, books, and personal stories about his journey to becoming an award-winning master chef. He was the executive chef, founder, and owner of the Blue Strawbery restaurant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Lee Fontain Carriage House in Memphis, Tennessee. He also owned and operated James Haller’s Kitchen, where he taught classes and acted as a food consultant.
Haller opened his renowned Blue Strawbery in 1970 and in 16 years never repeated a menu. Today, creative cuisine abounds, but in Chef Haller’s time, he was truly an innovator, one of a generation of American Chefs including Larry Forgione in Manhattan, Lydia Shire in Boston, Jeremiah Tower in San Francisco, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, who all pioneered the New American Cooking.
Haller is the author of several cookbooks, a food/fitness book, What to Eat When You Don’t Feel Like Eating, a book for feeding terminally ill people, which has sold over 800,000 copies, as well as Vie de France (2002), a book about the month he spent with friends in the Loire Valley for his sixtieth birthday, where he renewed his love of cooking. Vie de France has also been published in Brazil and the Czech Republic.
Chef Haller received the Granite State Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2000, and The Canadian Robert Pope Wellness Award for What to Eat When You Don’t Feel Like Eating. Haller spent ten years with Seacoast Hospice as a board member and volunteer, and also taught classes for the Association for the Blind, teaching unsighted people how to cook.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information call the Library at 603-516-6050.
This article originally appeared on Fosters Daily Democrat: James Haller to speak at Dover NH library
