Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Carrie Van Dyck to our Lake Forest Park store for a presentation of her late husband Ron Zimmerman's book The Spirit of The Herbfarm Restaurant : A Cookbook and Memoir: With More Than 100 Recipes, Tips, and Techniques from America's First Farm-to-Table Restaurant. This event is free and open to the public.
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About The Spirit of The Herbfarm Restaurant. . .
Working together, founders Ron Zimmerman and Carrie Van Dyck turned a farm garage into a restaurant like no other. In their pre-opening manifesto, they vowed to use only local ingredients to reunite their guests with the increasingly forgotten nature that has sustained us for hundreds of years.
The initial offering was a single noon seating that began with a garden tour led by Carrie. This quickly became a nine-course chef-selected menu with a price that included wine pairings. The meals told a daily story in six or nine sequential dishes of what was in the garden, wilds, farm, and sea.
Unlike restaurants that would later cloak themselves in the verbal mantle of “farm-to-table,” The Herbfarm Restaurant first found the food and only then designed the menu. Everything in each dish was local, not just the protein or main vegetable. Even olive oil and lemons weren’t used in the first years until Oregon olive orchards blossomed. There were no “supplements” or extra charges. Since guests were charged in advance, they knew to the penny what the experience would cost.
Part memoir, part cookbook, The Spirit of the Herbfarm Restaurant is a walk down memory lane, written, photographed, and largely designed by Ron before his death in 2023. Delight in the history of the restaurant as well as the unique seasonal dishes and recipes and beautiful photography that cover all occasions.
Carrie Van Dyck—co- founder of the world famous, local restaurant The Herbfarm—which was started in a garage on a small farm in Fall City, WA. Carrie speaks to her business partner and husband’s memoir and cookbook, The Spirit of The Herbfarm Restaurant, written before Ron’s passing in 2023. Ron’s narrative and visuals masterfully build an arc; illuminating his brilliant life, before there were search engines, he was the oracle for the farm to table movement. Sparkling storytelling, weaving through the formative years of local, regional and global food history, moving the reader from the past to the present and into the future.
About Third Place Books
Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.
