The Dearborn Public Library is hosting a virtual event at 6:30 p.m. April 18th – Tuesday with author Alex Prud’homme on Zoom. Prud’homme newest cookbook is “Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the Whitehouse” (Penguin Random House, $35.) In the book, Prud’homme, reveals the tastes of 26 American presidents, how meals were prepared, by whom and how those choices affected food policy around the world.
The event will be broadcast in the Henry Ford Centennial Library Auditorium, 16301 Michigan Ave. in Dearborn. Attendees will also have the option of watching on personal devices. Prud’homme, who co-authored Julia Child’s memoir “My Life in France,” is the grandnephew of the late Paul Child, husband of the late revered icon of the culinary world. To register for the event, go to dearbornlibrary.org or call 313-943-2330.