The Piglet Party

The Piglet

On Monday night, we hosted the Piglet Party to celebrate the Tournament of Cookbooks on food52. There was food and drink and even a little controversy during the panel discussion. For those of you who joined us, thank you for coming -- we enjoyed meeting you! And for those of you who couldn't make it, there's always next year! In the meantime, here's a slideshow of the evening (scroll down to get to it), photographed by our own Sarah Shatz.

The Piglet Party

Stanley and Evelyn Lobel.

Merrill and food writer Oliver Strand.

Co-author of Seven Fires Peter Kaminsky, and Piglet judge (and moderator!) Gail Simmons.

Tad Friend, Amanda's husband, and Slate's Mike Steinberger.

Kim Sunee, a Piglet judge, and food52 user fffolly with another guest.

Daniel Patterson, the chef at Coi in San Francisco and a Piglet judge.

Amanda.

Melissa Hamilton, co-author of Canal House Cooking, and her father, Jim Hamilton.

Veronica Stubbs, Merrill's mom, and guest.

NYT editor and Kitchen 4B host, Jill Santopietro.

Kim Koharki from the Astor Center.

Giulia Melucci, author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti.

Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine, a food52 winner.

Gabrielle Hamilton, chef at Prune and Piglet judge, and Charlotte Druckman, co-host of the Piglet, and her mom, Nancy Druckman.

The Piglet Trophy.

Christopher Hirsheimer, co-author of Canal House, and Peter Kaminsky.

Gabrielle and Melissa Hamilton -- sisters!

Charlotte, Amanda, and Merrill get the panel started.

Gail was an excellent moderator.

Peter Meehan, co-author of Momofuku.

Charlotte and Helen.

And the winner is...

Seven Fires!

Amanda, Helen Rosner, EatMeDaily writer and Piglet judge, and Jim Basili.

Kim Sunee, Piglet judge, and Ben Leventhal, Eater founder and Piglet judge.

Ben Leventhal, a Piglet judge, Peter Meehan, and his wife.

Erin McKenna, author and chef/owner of Babycakes.

Merrill and Kelsey the Naptime Chef, a food52 member and winner.