A Conversation with Cookbook Author Erin Jeanne McDowell

She learned to bake from her grandmothers in Kansas. The Culinary Institute of America came later.

Erin Jeanne McDowell joins New Canaan Library to launch Bake Anything, talking through how she built her instructional style, what she learned making the book, and the simple tips and tricks that change results more than most people expect.

About the author. McDowell is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, food stylist and baking expert who has developed recipes and styled food for the Times and Food & Wine, and teaches baking classes on Food Network Kitchen.

Make an afternoon of it. A signing follows the discussion, with copies for sale from Elm Street Books.

Check before you go. Registration is required. New Canaan Library does not publish a price for this program — confirm on the library’s event page before you plan around it.