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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Maura Connelly / 843-379-7025maura@patconroyliterarycenter.orgThe Conroy Center and the Anchorage 1770 Inn to Hosta Southern Living Inspired Event: Cook the BookWith James Beard Award-winning Chef and Cookbook Author Cynthia GraubartBEAUFORT, SC - Southern Living, the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the Anchorage 1770Inn are excited to announce the first Cook The Book: Sharing Recipes, Wine & Words, aspecial event to be held Saturday, May 19, from 4:00%u20139:00 p.m. at the Anchorage 1770(1103 Bay St., Beaufort, SC). The inaugural Cook the Book will be presented by renownedsouthern chef Cynthia Graubart, and will focus on recipes from her recent cookbook SundaySuppers (2017). The event has three components: Cynthia will give a cooking demonstrationof three recipes from Sunday Suppers assisted by Anchorage chef Byron Landis, followed bya book and apron signing with wine and appetizers on the veranda, and culminating with afour-course dinner complete with hand-selected wine pairings in the dining room.This new venture was inspired by Pat Conroy%u2019s passion for cooking and his perennial searchfor a new recipe. Pat opens his 2004 cookbook with the words, %u201cThe subject of food isnearly a sacred one to me.%u201d His lifelong passion for cooking was first ignited in 1969 andonly became more intense as he grew older. Many of his readers are familiar with anotherquote from his cookbook, %u201ca recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.%u201dCynthia Graubart is an ideal chef to launch the new Cook the Book series, which celebratesfoodways, writing, and fellowship. When Pat first began cooking in earnest, he turned toCynthia%u2019s husband Cliff for guidance. It was 1969 and Pat%u2019s first wife had appointed himfamily chef. He ventured to the Old New York Bookshop in Atlanta, asking for Graubart%u2019shelp. According to Pat%u2019s recollections, Cliff, fearing the Conroy clan demise by starvation,handed Pat an edition of Auguste Escoffier%u2019s cookbook. And so Pat%u2019s culinary adventuresbegan, and he became the epicurean %u2018magician%u2019, the soup %u2018sorcerer%u2019, turning %u201cthe art ofstealing recipes into both a hobby and an art.%u201dCynthia%u2019s newest cookbook, Sunday Suppers extols the virtues of the Sunday supper. Shesays the Sunday %u2018supper%u2019 was different than the Sunday %u2018dinner%u2019, a little less formal, butalwaysjustascomfortingbecauseit%u2019salwaysaboutfamilytimespentatthediningtable.InPat Conroy as Nature Writer at Village Social of Habersham, January 25 & 26V illage Social of Habersham and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will present the popular lecture %u201cPat Conroy as Nature Writer%u201d on Sunday, January 25, at 3:00-5:00 p.m., and again on Monday, January 26, at 6:00-8:00 p.m. %u2014 both at Village Social (21A-1 Market Street, Beaufort). Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy, assisted by students from the DAYLO book club, will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous, using the Lowcountry not only as the setting but also as the central character of his many books. This presentation will highlight representative examples of Conroy%u2019s nature writing from across the span of his writing life, drawing attention to how Conroy%u2019s relationship with nature is also ultimately a relationship with his deeply felt spiritual and humanistic faith. The $25 registration fee includes the presentation, refreshments, and a donation in support of the year-round educational mission of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. Advance registration for this event and others in this series is available online at www.villagesocialhabersham.net/upcoming-events.ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan%u2019s leadership, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother%u2019s honor, Tim Conroy is a retired educator and the author of the poetry collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route. His work has also appeared in Fall Lines, Blue Mountain Review, Jasper Magazine, Marked by the Water, Sheltered, Twelve Mile Review, Poetry on the Comet, The Post and Courier, Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth, DWG Anthology, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2022, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines, Volume IX. The Village Social series will continue on Monday, February 23, 6:00-8:00 p.m., with a panel discussion of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, also featuring Jonathan Haupt and Tim Conroy, joined by USC Beaufort writer in residence Ellen Malphrus and Pat Conroy%u2019s widow and fellow bestselling southern author Cassandra King. Learn more about the Pat Conroy Literary Center at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org. Learn more about Village Social of Habersham at www.villagesocialhabersham.net.photos courtesy of PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTERPat Conroy28 January 2026 | BeaufortLifestyle.comTim Conroy, Jonathan Haupt, and DAYLO students Emily Alaia and E Achurch