Holiday Baking Demo with Celebrated Chefs Anna & Renato

You're invited to a holiday baking demo with chefs Anna Gass & Renato Poliafito. Watch them bake while they talk about their books and give tips for successful holiday baking. Elm Street Books will be on site to sell books and hand out cookies. Anna and Renato will sign books after the event.

Anna Francese Gass grew up in a small town on the Rhode Island shore, before moving to New York City to study at New York University. After a stint in the corporate world, she decided she was much happier in the kitchen, not an office cubicle. She quit her fast paced sales job and enrolled in Culinary Arts at the French Culinary Institute (now ICC) to follow her dream to cook professionally. Soon thereafter, she found her niche in the test kitchens of Martha Stewart Living, Whole Foods and Mad Hungry. Currently, she is a regular contributing editor and recipe tester for Food52 and contributing writer for MSN.com. 

Renato Poliafito began his career as a designer in New York City after graduating from Skidmore College in 1996. Following years of print and online design work, he felt inclined to entertain his love for coffee and desserts. Being a self-taught cook (with a little inspiration from watching his mom in the kitchen), Renato changed career paths and traded his creative director status for that of café manager. His cookbooks earned him the industry's top accolades as well as international acclaim, culminating in a line of mixes, granola, bakeware, the opening of a location in Tokyo and two James Beard nominations. Dolci! is his fifth cookbook.