Join us for an evening of food provided by Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue, drinks provided by Tiger Beer, and live music provided by Woods as we celebrate the launch of Zakary Pelaccio's Eat With Your Hands, a collection of the inventive recipes that put his restaurants on the NYC culinary map.

About Eat With Your Hands:

In Eat With Your Hands , Pelaccio takes the reader on a zesty tour of the cuisine that has made him a star, in a cookbook that's as irreverent, high-spirited, and deeply iconoclastic as the chef himself.

Combining a punk rock ethos with a commitment to producing exquisitely imagined and executed food, Eat With Your Hands brings together Pelaccio's eclectic influences in over 125 recipes that showcase his innovative blending of Asian flavors, sustainable local ingredients, and American gusto.

Lush photography throughout captures the tactile pleasures of wildly imaginative dishes from modern classics such as Pork Belly and Watermelon to reinvented comfort food such as Chicken Poached in Sausage Gravy. Full of highly opinionated suggestions for both what to drink and what to listen to in the kitchen, paeans to the joys of the mortar and pestle and fermented condiments, charming sidebars on kitchen technique, and an unbridled love for real food, Eat With Your Hands is a celebration of no-holds barred cooking from a chef who is redefining the American culinary landscape.

Eat With Your Hands combines the most popular menu items from Pelaccio's restaurants and the food he makes in his own home kitchen. The recipes have broad range: they're perfect both for casual entertaining and chic dinners, easy for late night snacks and complex enough for company, or just for adding heat to the reader's own mid-week menus. With gorgeous, full-color photos that depict the finished dishes, the raw elements, and the urban hunt for locally-sourced ingredients, Eat With Your Hands is the complete package: a beautiful book of well-tested recipes that produce spot-on results for both the novice and practiced home cook.

About Zakary Pelaccio:

Zakary Pelaccio is an owner and founder of the restaurants Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue, an award-winning chef, a father, a part-time writer, amateur gardener, occasional teacher, and devout student of flavor. He lives in Old Chatham and Brooklyn, New York.

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