Notes from the Lake

February 9: For the Love of Books
Featuring Author Jill Connor-Browne, Fat is the New 30

February 11-17: Culinary Experience
Featuring guest chefs Kris Wrede, Beth Pav and Robin Miller

February 17-19: Guest Celebrity Hair Stylist Billy Yamaguchi

March 4-10: Mothers/Daughters/Sisters/Friends

March 7: Creative Camera Control
Featuring Photographer Jim Lacy

March 8: For the Love of Books
Featuring Author Spike Gillespie, “What’s Your Story”

March 11-17: Culinary Experience

Cowgirl Chef: Texas Cooking with a French Accent is about the adventures (and mishaps) of a displaced Texan in Paris - yes, it's a cookbook, but one with stories - and it chronicles the struggles of dealing with the French (including Ellise's picky eater boyfriend, X) and her own homesickness for Texas, which she cured by making salsa, tortillas, and starting a Tex-Mex catering and cooking class business out of her teensy, subterranean 16th arrondisement apartment... The result: A…

As a fourth generation Texas rancher, Chef Nicole Davenport is dedicated to ensuring the finest quality of dining for guests. At her restaurant, Sugar & Smoke, located in Fredericksburg, Texas, all of the food is prepared daily from scratch without MSG or processed additives and features local meats and produce. Nicole's triumphs in slow cooking are well established stateside and abroad. She is competing in the upcoming season of the Food Network's Chopped Grill Masters, has been…