Tickets for the 2026 Summer Season go on sale at 12 PM on April 13. Guild Hall Members enjoy early access—click HERE to join and take advantage of this and other exclusive benefits.

Stirring the Pot: Florence Fabricant—Salty, Not Sweet
with James Barron

Guild Hall turns the tables for a special Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant as the guest of honor, celebrating her forthcoming memoir, Salty, Not Sweet: A Life in the Food World, published by Running Press of Hachette Book Group with an October release. Interviewed by New York Times writer James Barron, Fabricant will reflect on the many decades of her life and her remarkable career, defined by an insatiable search for new dining experiences. She will trace the evolution of food and restaurant culture in the United States and abroad, share behind-the-scenes stories from her reporting, and reveal the personalities, trends, and turning points she helped bring to the public’s attention.

The morning begins with a complimentary continental breakfast courtesy of Citarella, offering guests a delicious start before this engaging and flavorful conversation with one of food writing’s most influential voices. Following the program, guests can meet Florence in the lobby and secure advance copies of her new book.

Tickets for the 2026 Summer Season go on sale at 12 PM on April 13. Guild Hall Members enjoy early access—click HERE to join and take advantage of this and other exclusive benefits.

Stirring the Pot: Russ & Daughters—Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper

Join Florence Fabricant at Guild Hall for an irresistible edition of Stirring the Pot featuring Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, fourth-generation owners of Russ & Daughters. They’ll share stories from their family’s legendary Lower East Side appetizing shop, tracing a century of smoked fish, bagels, and New York food culture, and discuss their new book, Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing. Following the conversation, guests are invited to a special book signing—an opportunity to meet the authors and take home a signed copy.

A must-attend for food lovers, home cooks, and anyone who savors the traditions that define New York’s culinary heritage.

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In 1907, a Jewish immigrant named Joel Russ landed in New York City, where he took a pushcart of herring and built a legacy that would pass down through fathers and daughters (and sons and husbands and wives) for more than a hundred years. Four generations later, the ancestral heart of Russ & Daughters continues to bustle on the Lower East Side, with three more locations throughout the city.

Over the course of a century, Russ & Daughters has fed hundreds of thousands of customers, many considering a visit to the original shop on East Houston a family tradition, weekly ritual, or New York experience. Now, for the first time, Russ & Daughters brings its world-famous institution into readers’ homes with RUSS & DAUGHTERS: 100 Years of Appetizing. Its rich history is told through insider anecdotes from the family and characters on both sides of the counter; illuminating guides to its most famed offerings—smoked salmon, sable, sturgeon, herring, and caviar; and more than 100 cherished recipes for favorite foods like latkes, matzo ball soup, babka, and bagels among many others.

Nothing can ever replace the experience of taking a number, kibbitzing with a slicer, waiting in line, and ordering your whitefish or belly lox. Yet this book captures some of that infectious Russ & Daughters appetizing spirit, and most importantly, brings families and friends together around the table.

Tickets for the 2026 Summer Season go on sale at 12 PM on April 13. Guild Hall Members enjoy early access—click HERE to join and take advantage of this and other exclusive benefits.

Stirring the Pot: Chef Kwame Onwuachi

Join Florence Fabricant as she sits down with acclaimed chef, restaurateur, and author Kwame Onwuachi for an illuminating conversation about his remarkable culinary journey. A James Beard Award winner, Onwuachi is the chef and partner behind Tatiana in New York City—one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country—as well as Dōgon and Patty Palace by Chef Kwame, each reflecting his bold, globally inspired approach to flavor and storytelling through food.

Born in the Bronx and raised between New York, Nigeria, and Louisiana, his cooking draws on Afro-Caribbean, West African, and American traditions that shape his personal history and are defining trends for today’s dining. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and author of the bestselling memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef, Onwuachi brings candor, creativity, and cultural insight to the table.

Enjoy a pre-show continental breakfast, courtesy of Citarella, before this inspiring morning of conversation, culture, and cuisine. The talk will be followed by a book signing in the lobby, and books can be purchased in advance or on site.

 

Celebrating XO, Ballerina Big Sis and the upcoming PBS documentary Tiler Peck: Suspending Time

Join us for an unforgettable evening with Tiler Peck, Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet, in conversation with two-time Tony nominated actress & dancer, Charlotte d’Amboise (Chicago, A Chorus Line, Pippin). Together, they’ll explore Peck’s extraordinary career, her new memoir XO, Ballerina Big Sis, and her upcoming PBS Great Performances documentary Tiler Peck: Suspending Time (premiering November 7).

Through candid reflection and heartfelt storytelling, Peck will share insights into artistry, discipline, mentorship, and the courage to evolve both onstage and off. This conversation offers a rare glimpse behind the curtain of one of dance’s brightest stars.

A book signing will follow the conversation in lobby after the program. Advance copies can be ordered as an add-on to your ticket purchase, or on the day of the program, while supplies last.

BUSINESS NETWORKING EVENT

$20 | $15 for Members | Free for Community Pillars

The Innovators Talk Show at Guild Hall brings you an insightful series spotlighting the business and cultural leaders who are reshaping their industries and doing game-changing work.

Episode 1:
Guild Hall Executive Director Andrea Grover will sit down with Malcolm Carfrae, Founder and Principal of Carfrae Consulting, a global consultancy that provides hands-on, strategic counsel for brands in all areas of communications, and former Head of Communications at both Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.

Reception to follow with drinks and light bites by Moby’s East Hampton.

The Innovators Talk Show is free to Community Pillars. Not a member? JOIN today!

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THE MATTHIESSEN TALKS: BILL MCKIBBEN, A LAST CHANCE FOR THE CLIMATE AND A FRESH CHANCE FOR CIVILIZATION

Presented with The Peter Matthiessen Center

Writer, activist and environmentalist Bill McKibben, among the first to alert the world of the imminent perils of climate change with his book The End of Nature, comes to Guild Hall in East Hampton with a powerful message: In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, solar energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient energy choice around the world.

Even as the current U.S. government renews its embrace of fossil fuels and turns the nation away from renewables, solar power is taking off around the world. Against all the big, bad things happening on the planet, this is a very big and hopeful thing. McKibben will discuss groundbreaking revelations in his new book, Here Comes the Sun, A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, followed by a conversation with environmental activist and PMC president, Alex Matthiessen.

The program will be followed by a book signing in the lobby. Copies of Bill McKibben’s book will be available for purchase in person on the day of the program, subject to availability. Advance sales are now closed.

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ABOUT THE PETER MATTHIESSEN CENTER

Since 2019, the Peter Matthiessen Center has organized a myriad of popular events on the East End of Long Island–the writer’s home of 55 years from where the great majority of his 33 books was written–in furtherance of the issues he cared and wrote about most: protection of the environment and native peoples and (hu)man’s spiritual search for meaning. In 2025, the Matthiessen Talks was launched, a series of public events, or “dialogues,” designed to amplify the views of writers and activists who are working and organizing on behalf of nature and indigenous peoples. In addition to sponsoring the series, the PMC aims to establish an international literary prize in Peter Matthiessen’s name to support and promote writers producing works of fiction and non-fiction that aim, directly or indirectly, to address the most challenging issues of our time–and, in this way, further empower and mobilize the grassroots movements toiling to save civilization and the planet, as we know them.

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