Event

Dinner Party with Mary Roach

The irresistible, ever-curious and always bestselling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure into the invisible realm that people carry around inside with "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal."

Join Left Bank Books and Feast magazine for a dinner party with Mary Roach celebrating this new, hilarious and insightful book. Mary Roach will read passages while L'Ecole Culinaire serves food inspired by the book. The author will also answer questions and conclude with a book signing. Tickets include dinner, the lecture, and a hardcover copy of "Gulp."

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The questions explored in "Gulp" are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in "Stiff" and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in "Packing for Mars." Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis?

Like all of Roach's books, "Gulp" is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. Find out everything you never knew you wanted to know at our humorous dinner party with this irresistible author.