You are invited to a special night with Emmy Award-winning cookbook author, Stephanie Hansen and her writing partner, husband, and Minnesota Book award winner, Kurt Johnson. Zenith will host them on Friday, June 5th at 7 pm. They will share their new book, The Moon Tavern: A Culinary Love Story (With Recipes). There will be tasty treats along with wonderful conversation! Bring a friend for a perfect evening out! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and can be personally signed by the authors.

The Moon Tavern: A Culinary Love Story (With Recipes) takes the reader on a romantic and culinary journey through the Islands of Croatia, where dark family secrets are revealed, quirky friends and relatives are found, and love is discovered. Each chapter ends with a story-inspired recipe.

Vesna (Ves) is a cookbook writer from Minneapolis who takes a trip to the island of Lastovo off the coast of Croatia to reconnect with her biological grandmother. She’d been adopted as a young child after her parents died in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. In Lastovo, she meets Dinko, a single, wealthy vineyard owner, and his young daughter Mia. With Dinko’s help, Ves discovers her biological family’s history and the dark secrets of what occurred during the war. Filled with romance, travel, cooking, and piecing together her past, Ves ultimately learns what matters most: family and someone to share your life with.

Stephanie Hansen and Kurt Johnson are a married writing team. Stephanie Hansen is the author of True North Cabin Cooking Volume I & II, Midwestern cookbook bestsellers. She hosts the radio show The Weekly Dish and the Emmy Award-winning television show Taste Buds with Stephanie, now in its third season. Kurt Johnson is the author of the novel The Barrens, winner of the Minnesota Book Award in 2023.