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Scottie Jeanette Madden's
"RECKLASS COAST2COAST"
TOUR JOURNAL
a year of light, laughter & love... oh, and food!
*Silicon Valley * New York City* Seattle * Sonoma Wine County * Los Angeles*
Each tour stop she met fans, chatted a little about the writing of her Recklass ways... oh, and there was food!
Silicon Valley Saturday, November 9th
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This one was personal -- knowing that as the tour ramps up, and the venues get bigger, Scottie Jeanette wanted to kick off the Recklass Coast2Coast Book Tour with an intimate party for the "legacy angels" - the special individuals who encouraged and backed Scottie Jeanette & Marcy's earliest publishing efforts that lead to the creation and foundation of Zuzubean Press. A few new fans were swept up and into the joyful fray - including a newly immigrated couple from Scotland who jumped in with Recklass abandon. Scottie Jeanette's partner in crime was the incomparable Laurie Kehl, who has been on the Zuzubean Press Mastermind Council since it's formation. She joyfully welcomed, hosted and supported Scottie Jeanette right through taking on the extra duty of handling the leftover Almond Joy cake and passionfruit curd...
To help inspire the guests and fans of Recklass In The Kitchen for the upcoming holidays, Scottie Jeanette served dishes from the pages of her holiday menus but with classic Recklass improvisation: Chicken thighs brined in Apple cider & lager (mixing techniques from the Thanksgiving Turkey brined in hard cider and her Latin spiced Yucatan chicken) Cedar Planked Salmon in onion, caper nutmeg and Whiskey, Sweet Potato & Chipotle Tart, Maple Glazed Brussel Sprouts. For dessert it was the Lemon pound cake with passionfruit curd, passionfruit glaze & blackberries, and Cranberry Gems -- Cranberries marinated in Cabernet, Toasted Slivered Almonds, in White Chocolate dusted with chipotle & habanero salt. But oddly it was the new kid -- The Almond Joy cake that Scottie Jeanette created in honor of the occasion -- a double layered affair that was a combination of Italian wedding cake & angel food cake but with coconut & almond flour, a deep chocolate ganache was spread between the layers and the entire cake was frosted with a coconut buttercream, dusted with shredded coconut and chopped toasted almonds, decorated with deep chocolate buttons...
Also of note, the amazing photographer who took the color plate/food porn shots that grace every chapter of Recklass In The Kitchen, Mena Kerry Kehoe came to the fête and once again documented the decadence! Her work is below for you to enjoy!
Scottie Jeanette was so grateful to show her appreciation in the most Recklass of ways... the Coast2Coast Tour is under way!
NYC week 1: "Recklass @ the Bureau," November, 14th, 2019
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Recklass Coast2Coast Tour stop @the Bureau (of General Services-- Queer Division. The Co-Owner and founder of this fantastic independent bookstore nestled within "the Center" (New York City LGBT Center) explains the name as "A Government Agency for a country that does not yet exist." Which Scottie Jeanette took to mean a place where tolerance, acceptance, liberty, equality and justice for all is truly the law of the land. And of course, SJ pledged that until that country exists, the Astral Halo Squadron would continue to patrol the skies and Her Majesty's Unicorn Battalion would protect and defend all citizens on her behalf. It was a light hearted moment with serious undertones as we stood among a truly comprehensive library of books that chronicled the LGBTQ movement, and Zuzubean Press was deeply honored to have now all three of our books (Recklass In the Kitchen, Marcy's "Just Because My Husband's a Woman... Marcy's side of the story, and SJ's "Getting Back To Me, from girl to boy to woman in just fifty years, ) added to the collection. Moments before the program was to begin, a beautiful woman came walking down the ramp into the space with a huge grin on her face -- Scottie Jeanette's dear friend Monica Walsh stopped by. She was working in the City for a month and came to pick-up some Christmas gifts for her amazing Mother Lupe.
This was the first of two dates that Anna Dunn, a noted poet, cookbook and crime novel writer would be "In Conversation" (its a thing, you know) with Scottie Jeanette. And the tone for the evening was at times light and celebratory as well as deep and sometimes heartbreaking as Anna’s insight about Recklass cooking, writing and life propelled the conversation into territory Scottie Jeanette could only dream would be covered. Anna is themself, no stranger to grief and mourning, and as spent time "on the line" as a chef and cook and bartender in the NY/Brooklyn/Bushwick/Williamsburg Foodie Scene and written "Salty" cookbook, as well co-written "The Long table Cookbook" with Andrew Tarlow. She confessed to be a big fan of Recklass (which made Scottie Jeanette blush up one side and down the other) and shined a spotlight on some key elements, saying, "It was truly my honor to sit with scottie jeanette tonight at Bureau to talk about her book Recklass in the Kitchen. It’s a radical text. It’s a text about radical love, about all transformations, about how we make love for one another, about how to perfect a perfectly poached egg. It always comes back to the egg."
The audience loved it, joining in on the conversation throughout, sharing recipes and comparing notes. A wonderful time thanks to the Bureau!
This was the first of two dates that Anna Dunn, a noted poet, cookbook and crime novel writer would be "In Conversation" (its a thing, you know) with Scottie Jeanette. And the tone for the evening was at times light and celebratory as well as deep and sometimes heartbreaking as Anna’s insight about Recklass cooking, writing and life propelled the conversation into territory Scottie Jeanette could only dream would be covered. Anna is themself, no stranger to grief and mourning, and as spent time "on the line" as a chef and cook and bartender in the NY/Brooklyn/Bushwick/Williamsburg Foodie Scene and written "Salty" cookbook, as well co-written "The Long table Cookbook" with Andrew Tarlow. She confessed to be a big fan of Recklass (which made Scottie Jeanette blush up one side and down the other) and shined a spotlight on some key elements, saying, "It was truly my honor to sit with scottie jeanette tonight at Bureau to talk about her book Recklass in the Kitchen. It’s a radical text. It’s a text about radical love, about all transformations, about how we make love for one another, about how to perfect a perfectly poached egg. It always comes back to the egg."
The audience loved it, joining in on the conversation throughout, sharing recipes and comparing notes. A wonderful time thanks to the Bureau!
NYC Week 2 Recklass @ The Writers Guild of America Thursday, November 21st, 2019
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Once again, so very honored to be invited to get Recklass at the WGAeast. And honored once again to share thoughts in the third person... Anna is a writing machine, between last week's Conversation @ the Bureau and last night's affair at the WGA, they have written a grant proposal for a compilation of incarcerated trans people, continued work on a new cookbook, (which involves shepherding their publisher's editors away from mediocrity toward Anna's standards) and editing the weekly food newsletters on ther plate all while caring for precious pup Billy, who had surgery last week because Anna apparently needed something else to do! Inspiring! As the evening got under way, the always amazing, tireless and generous Andrew Greenberg introduced the program saying that he always is looking for events such as these to support the Non-fiction side of the Guild's efforts because they build the community of writers (his usual job is to organize them to fight for improved conditions) and celebrate their work. He went on to say that was he was glad to celebrate Scottie Jeanette's Recklass accomplishment, who was the "Spiritual Guide" of the Non-Fiction Showrunner's Workshop (now 3 years running). Can you see why writing this journal in he third person is useful?
The lively crowd was made up of participants of the workshop, long time friends and family and new fans. Anna started it off by getting write into the meat of the evening (see what she did there?) the process of writing itself. It was a meta moment for Scottie Jeanette to be here, at the WGA discussing writing... the conversation would go to sway between the two poles of cooking and the art of writing as both Anna & Scottie Jeanette were able to drill down to their experiences as trans writers and cooks -- both of which are typically among the only healthy self-medication strategies for coping. The good news, they both shared, is they can become strategies for thriving.
Scottie Jeanette was able to celebrate Marcy's life with stories that stemmed from the development of Recklass cooking as Scottie Jeanette relentlessly pursued Marcy's uncompromising taste. Anna asked Scottie Jeanette to share her story from the final chapter of making French Toast... and was so very grateful for the chance to once again destroy her eyeliner in a crowded room...
It was a fitting and wonderful conclusion of this side of the Recklass Coast2Coast tour... next stop Seattle!
The lively crowd was made up of participants of the workshop, long time friends and family and new fans. Anna started it off by getting write into the meat of the evening (see what she did there?) the process of writing itself. It was a meta moment for Scottie Jeanette to be here, at the WGA discussing writing... the conversation would go to sway between the two poles of cooking and the art of writing as both Anna & Scottie Jeanette were able to drill down to their experiences as trans writers and cooks -- both of which are typically among the only healthy self-medication strategies for coping. The good news, they both shared, is they can become strategies for thriving.
Scottie Jeanette was able to celebrate Marcy's life with stories that stemmed from the development of Recklass cooking as Scottie Jeanette relentlessly pursued Marcy's uncompromising taste. Anna asked Scottie Jeanette to share her story from the final chapter of making French Toast... and was so very grateful for the chance to once again destroy her eyeliner in a crowded room...
It was a fitting and wonderful conclusion of this side of the Recklass Coast2Coast tour... next stop Seattle!