'Read & Feed,' and drink, at Basilica Hudson

The event at the Basilica Hudson is called "Read & Feed." However, it also includes wine, but perhaps no one could find a word for that to rhyme with the rest of the title.

It's a festival-style mashup covering literature and food, and will include food and wine tastings, panel discussions, readings, demos, and access to the marketplace space.

Tickets, available online for the 4 p.m. Saturday, July 30, event, are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Both prices cover a $5 voucher that can be used toward any book or magazine purchase at the event. Basilica Hudson and the Community for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) organization are projecting "Read & Feed" as an annual event bringing together artisanal makers of food and artisanal makers of literature.

Among the panels on the schedule:

"Two Best Friends and a Bottle of Wine" -- Authors Lydia Davis ("Can't and Won't: Stories") and Lynne Tillman ("What Would Lynne Tillman Do?") will engage with each other and the audience over a wine tasting. Moderated by Michael Albin.

"Food, Farming, and Spirituality" -- Chef Zak Pelaccio (Fish & Game restaurant in Hudson, "Eat With Your Hands"), author Marie Mutsuki Mockett ("Where the Dead Pause" and "The Japanese Say Goodbye"), and organic farmer Sarah Chase (Chaseholm Farm) join cookbook author and panel moderator Rozanne Gold ("Radically Simple," "Cooking 1-2-3") to discuss how spirituality manifests itself in the culinary arts.

"Reading, Drinking, Eating, Writing" -- Rosie Schapp (New York Times “Drinking” columnist and author of "Drinking with Men"), Kimiko Hahn (president of the Poetry Society of America Kimiko Hahn and author of "Brain Fever: Poems"), author Ava Chin ("Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal"), and true crime writer Harold Schechter ("Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal") explore food as a language.

Demonstrations with tastings:

"Cooking with the Muse" -- Myra Kornfield and Stephen Massimilla, authors of "Cooking with the Muse: a Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare."

"The Belle Reeve" -- Marianne Courville of The Hudson Standard will demonstrate how to concot and taste this quintessentially southern cocktail made with bourbon, ginger liqueur, lemon and Hudson Standard’s Peach Lavender Shrub.

Other details are available on the event website. Basilica Hudson is located at 110 South Front Street in Hudson, Columbia County. It is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts center supporting the creation, production and presentation of arts and culture while fostering sustainable community. It was founded in 2010 by musician Melissa Auf der Maur and filmmaker Tony Stone.