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Read It & Eat Bookshop Buffalo's first culinary bookstore. Visit us inside the Valvaere Collective at 2929 Main Street

It's a rainy day - it's a good day for soup, noodles, and warm cuddly things. There are a few new titles dropping into t...
08/23/2026

It's a rainy day - it's a good day for soup, noodles, and warm cuddly things. There are a few new titles dropping into the shop this season.

08/21/2026

We’re headed to the Italian coast. 🇮🇹

Well… sort of.

Join us Sunday, August 30 at DiTondo for an evening celebrating LIDO: Recipes and Stories from Italy’s Beach Clubs with authors Melissa Pellegrino and Matthew Scialabba. Reservations start at 5:00 PM!

In partnership with DiTondo, your evening includes:
🍋 A four-course dinner inspired by LIDO
🍹 A welcome spritz
🎶 Live music
📖 Every quest gets their own copy of LIDO
✨ An evening celebrating the food, history and culture of Italy’s beach clubs

From aperitivi to dolci, LIDO is an invitation to bring a little bit of Italian beach-club life home... and we’re bringing that feeling to Buffalo for one night.

Sunday, August 30 | Reservations start at 5PM
📍 DiTondo | 370 Seneca St
Come hungry. Come ready for la dolce vita.

🎟️ Tickets available now through the link in our bio.

08/19/2026

Nachos are more than a snack. They’re a lifestyle. 🌮🧀

And if you’ve ever thought, “What if we put a cheeseburger on a nacho?” Alex P. Taylor gets you.

Join us Saturday, September 5 at 1 PM at Jack Rabbit for Talk × Taste: Totally Nachrageous celebrating Alex P. Taylor, the Nacho King of Connecticut, and his debut cookbook, Totally Nachrageous: 70+ Next-Level Nacho Recipes for Parties, Game Days & Crowd-Pleasing Fun.

We’ll be serving up two recipes straight from the book:
🍔 Caitlin’s Double Cheeseburger Nachos
🔥 Hot Honey Buffalo Cauliflower Nachos

Plus, there will be a cash bar and signed copies of the cookbook available at an exclusive attendee discount.

Come hungry. Leave nacho-obsessed.

🎟️ Grab your tickets and join us for the nacho party!

08/18/2026

After a sleepy summer, we're starting to see publishing's tone shift as the season of cookbooks approaches. Fall is the season where we see the tidal waves of new titles so it was time to refresh the wall of cookbooks!

Remember, we are still OPEN as we build our new flagship location in Williamsville!

All of our titles are updated on our website each week as well so you can shop online and choose in-store pickup or we ship anywhere in the United States.

08/13/2026

600 COOKBOOKS. 🤯📚

When we offered signed pre-orders for Weeknight Winners, Family Dinners from Buffalo’s own Jack, Emmy & Levi Zhang of Cooking for Levi, we knew our community would be excited… but watching 500 copies get delivered was pretty special.

Now, come celebrate with us. ❤️

Join us Saturday, August 29th at 1:00 PM for an afternoon with this local Buffalo family and first-time authors as we celebrate their brand-new cookbook, WEEKNIGHT WINNERS, FAMILY DINNERS.

The cookbook is packed with 80 recipes designed to bring the whole family to the table. Most recipes are ready in 30 minutes or less, and the book includes ten ways to get kids excited about food while building connection and language along the way.

At the event:
🍴 Watch the family demonstrate a dish from the cookbook
🥄 Sample TWO dishes from the book, catered by our friends at bloomandrose
📚 Purchase a copy at a special event price
✍️ Have your cookbook signed by the whole family — including Levi!
🎟️ Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children under 16.
📍Where: The beloved Theatre of Youth.
⏱️When: Saturday, August 29 | 1:00 PM

Come hungry, bring the family, and celebrate a very special Buffalo book launch with us. ❤️

🎟️ Tickets available on the site shop linked in our bio!

Join us Saturday, September 5th at 1pm at Jack Rabbit for a Nacho Party! We're celebrating Alex P. Taylor, the Nacho Kin...
08/11/2026

Join us Saturday, September 5th at 1pm at Jack Rabbit for a Nacho Party! We're celebrating Alex P. Taylor, the Nacho King of Connecticut and his debut cookbook, Totally Nachrageous: 70+ Next-Level Nacho Recipes for Parties, Game Days & Crowd-Pleasing Fun. 

Ticket includes Hot Honey Buffalo Cauliflower Nachos and Caitlin’s Double Cheeseburger Nachos, two delicious recipes from the cookbook! There will also be a cash bar available as well.  

Tickets in our bio and on our website

Details 🎫🎫
Date: Saturday, September 5th
Time: 1pm
Where: Jack Rabbit Buffalo
Tickets: All talk x Taste tickets include tasting samples and bundled tickets receive a discount on signed copies of the cookbook!

     

Happy Book Lovers Day!My first love has always been . I'm actually a retired booktuber. I was pretty active for three y...
08/09/2026

Happy Book Lovers Day!

My first love has always been . I'm actually a retired booktuber. I was pretty active for three years and once the store opened I couldn't keep up consistently producing content, running the store, and having my corporate job. I love balancing my reading between food writing and some food fiction (mysteries and fiction being my favorite). Here's a few from the past year or so that I've thoroughly enjoyed, a bunch we've even read in book club!

Drop a note below - recommend a food memoir to me and let's see if I've read it (or it's on the shelves of the 1000+ food history and food writing titles I own)

Read It & Eat browser & shoppers are more than just *kinda* chic ♥️ we love ya.
08/07/2026

Read It & Eat browser & shoppers are more than just *kinda* chic ♥️ we love ya.

07/30/2026

It's the little things in life, like squishy stress relief butter that indeed smells like butter. 🧈🧈🧈

07/28/2026

We love receiving book mail - especially upcomjng releases. Let us know which titles you want us a peek inside at! 👀👀
You can pre-order these titles and many more in our website

Thank you to our publisher partners:

📝 September 15, 2026
🥕 Veg Everything: Recipes for Weeknights, Parties and the Bites in Between [A Vegetarian Cookbook]

Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times Cooking
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📝September 22, 2026
🍛No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World: At-Home Recipes from the Streets, Truck Stops, Villages, and Palaces of India

Meherwan Irani, Jamie Feldmar  / Ten Speed Press
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📝 September 22, 2026
🥢Cook Asian: 100+ Flavor-Packed, Foolproof Recipes from My Asian American Kitchen

Chris Joe .eats_
 

📝September 29, 2026
🍅The Kitchen I Came Home To: Big Flavors and Tall Tales from My Corner of Kentucky

Sara Bradley
Ten Speed Press

📝September 29, 2026
🍲A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook: 100 Easy, Comforting Recipes for Every Mood and Desire
/ Adrianna Adarme
Ten Speed Press

📝October 6, 2026
🌮Nixta Taqueria Presents: From Tacos to Tahdig: Recipes and Stories from Mexico, Iran, and the In-Between

Ten Speed Press
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📝October 13, 2026
🍋Love and Lemons Pop of Flavor: 100 Saucy, Spicy, Crunchy, Herby, Tangy Recipes for Craveable Everyday Cooking
Jeanine Donofrio/

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📝October 13, 2026
🧀The Charcuterie Board Deck: 50 Creative and Stylish Spreads to Share by Meg Quinn


  

📝October 13, 2026
🥘A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup, Celebrating Community, Friendship, and Resilience by Major Jackson



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