If you love cookbooks, come see us at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

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Food lovers and cooks will have plenty to explore at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 20 and 21 on the USC campus. Here’s what we have cooking:

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Panels and Interviews

Saturday, April 20

4 p.m.: Food Memoir: Cooks With Books. Storyteller, historian and Jewish recipe collector Joan Nathan (“My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories”); France-based cooking teacher and guide Rosa Jackson (“Niçoise: Market-Inspired Cooking From France’s Sunniest City”), and chef, writer and magazine founder Klancy Miller (“For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes”) in conversation with L.A. Times Food general manager Laurie Ochoa. Free. At USC’s Ray Stark Family Theatre.

Sunday, April 21

Programming note: The Ideas Exchange event with José Andrés scheduled for Sunday, April 21, has been canceled. Unfortunately, Andrés is unable to appear as planned, as he is focusing on supporting the World Central Kitchen team and their families through this difficult time. We apologize for any inconvenience this cancellation may cause.

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Ask me anything about ... cookbooks

At the L.A. Times Food x Now Serving Booth

L.A.’s world-famous cookbook store Now Serving is joining with L.A. Times Food for meetups and signings with chefs and authors of recent and forthcoming cookbooks. We’ll also have L.A. Times Food merch, including a new apron from Hedley & Bennett and a new batch of our California Heat spice from Burlap & Barrel. Meet L.A. Times Food staff writers and editors too!

Saturday, April 20

Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson stand in a garden wearing aprons.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Ask chefs and authors Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson anything about their “vegetable-intensive” restaurant (on the L.A. Times 101) and forthcoming book “Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes.”

Karla Vasquez stands at an island in the L.A. Times test kitchen

11 a.m. to noon: Ask author Karla Tatiana Vasquez anything about Salvadoran food and her forthcoming book “The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them.”

Noon to 1 p.m.: Ask vegan recipe developer and Veggiekins website founder Remy Morimoto Park anything about her book “Sesame, Soy, Spice: 90 Asian-ish Vegan and Gluten-free Recipes to Reconnect, Root, and Restore.”

1 to 2 p.m.: Ask cooking video host Rie McClenny anything about cooking on camera and her book “Make It Japanese: Simple Recipes for Everyone.”

2. to 3 p.m.: Ask “Ranch to Table” Magnolia network host and lifestyle pro Elizabeth Poett anything about cattle ranching and her book “The Ranch Table.”

Sunday, April 21

Chef Michael Twitty holds his book "Koshersoul"

11 a.m. to noon: Ask recipe developer, food stylist and “Salad Freak” author Jess Damuck anything about working with Martha Stewart and about her new book “Health Nut.”

Noon to 1 p.m.: Ask Rose Wilde anything about baking with whole grains, her Red Bread bakery or her cookbook “Bread and Roses.”

1 to 2 p.m.: Ask food editor and Netflix TV cooking host Alyse Whitney anything about her career and new cookbook “Big Dip Energy: 88 Parties in a Bowl for Snacking, Dinner, Dessert, and Beyond!”

2 to 3 p.m.: Ask culinary historian and author Michael Twitty anything about his Afroculinaria website, winning the James Beard Book of the Award for “The Cooking Gene” or his subsequent book “Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew.”

3 to 4 p.m.: Ask Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan about running a restaurant in the Michigan forest or her latest memoir “Fieldwork.”

Food author Ruth Reichl sits smiling, her hand alongside her cheek

4 to 5 p.m.: Ask Ruth Reichl anything about being a restaurant critic, editor of Gourmet and author of memoirs and fiction. Plus, get bookplates signed for her forthcoming “The Paris Novel.”

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On the L.A. Times Cooking Stage

Saturday, April 20

A smiling woman is about to start a blender in her kitchen

11 a.m.: Cooking demo with Jeff and Jordan Kim, “Cooking With the CrunchBros”

12:00 p.m.: Cooking demo by Radhi Devlukia, “JoyFull”

A man sits cross-legged on the ground outdoors, lifting ramen from a bowl with chopsticks

2 p.m.: Cooking demo with Josh Scherer, “Rhett & Link Present: The Mythical Cookbook”

3:30 p.m.: Cooking demo with Gianluca Conte, “Italian/American: It’s a QCP Cookbook, Betch!”

Sunday, April 21

11 a.m.: Cooking demo by Jing Gao, “The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp”

12:30 p.m.: Cooking demo with Jenny Martinez, “My Mexican Mesa, y Listo!”

2 p.m.: Cooking demo by Tiffani Thiessen, “Here We Go Again”

3:30 p.m.: Cooking demo by Nancy Silverton, “The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins and Pies That Will Change Yours”