Almond’s Sixth Artists & Writers Night Featuring Authors Gabrielle Selz, Erica-Lynn Huberty and Steven Gaines!

Almond announces the sixth monthly “Artists & Writers Night” hosted by local authors Gabrielle Selz, Erica-Lynn Huberty and Steven Gaines on Tuesday, April 16th at 7 p.m. A family style three-course menu created by executive chef Jason Weiner will be served. The cost is $40 in advance and $45 at the door with a glass of local wine or craft beer, tax and gratuity. The menu is as follows:

Appetizers
Spring Salad
Wild arugula, shell beans, smoked feta cheese and buttermilk dressing

Entrée
Garlic and Rosemary Studded Leg of Lamb
Roasted Fingerlings, glazed baby carrots and grilled asparagus

Dessert
Strawberry-ginger crisp a la mode

This month’s Artists & Writers Night theme is “Story Telling” with stories by Selz, Huberty and Gaines. “Through this event, we’re continuing the time-honored Hamptons tradition as an incubator of creativity,” chef Jason Weiner explains. The evening will give artists and writers the opportunity to gather together to exchange thoughts and ideas while enjoying a great meal.

About Gabrielle Selz
Gabrielle Selz was born in Pomona, California, and grew up in the New York City art world and the bohemian world of Berkeley, California in the 1960’s & 1970’s. She lived for a number of years in the utopian artists housing project, Westbeth, surrounded by people with huge appetites and wild imaginations, who practiced “life as art”.  Ms. Selz has used these often challenging and dramatic experiences as inspiration in her writing, exploring the ramifications of growing up in the outrageous, uncontained and yet transformative world of art. Ms. Selz has published in magazines and newspapers including, MORE Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, and Fiction. She writes regularly on art for The Huffington Post and has been anthologized in Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s. She received her MFA from City College in New York.

About Steven Gaines
East End resident Steven Gaines is the best selling author of 12 books, including Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons; The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan; The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles; and Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner. Gaines is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and his journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, the New York Times, Los Angeles, Worth, and Connoisseur.

About Erica-Lynn Huberty
Erica-Lynn Huberty is the author of Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales, which was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award for fiction.  She received her B.A. in writing and art from N.Y.U., and her Masters Degree in writing, literature and visual art at Bennington College.  From 1996-2001, she was a senior feature writer and art critic for The Southampton Press, and an art critic and writer for Sculpture Magazine. Her work has also been anthologized in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems, and published in Camillia Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Pulse, among many other publications.  She lives in Sag Harbor.

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About Almond
Almond debuted on the Hamptons restaurant scene in the spring of 2001.  The affordable French bistro quickly became one of the top spots in the Hamptons for locals, celebrities and tourists. “Almond has brought French bistro to the Hamptons,” stated Joanne Starkey of the New York Times. Chef Jason Weiner quickly established himself in the Hamptons as top toque and over the years has established a very strong commitment to using locally farmed products and local produce in order to support the local community.  Fast-forward 10 years and the iconic Hamptons French bistro now enters a new phase with a new spot for their popular concept.