Upcoming events
- Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 10:00amGlobe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch
- Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 10:00amGlobe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch
- Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 10:00amGlobe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch
- Sunday, December 5, 2010 - 10:00amGlobe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch
Marjorie Harris: Thrifty @ Grano
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Grano Ristorante
Marjorie Harris is one of Canada's best known garden writers. Join Marjorie and friends as we celebrate her new book Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style with a night of exuberant Italian cuisine and frivolity at Grano Restaurant. Proceeds from this evening will support the Toronto Botanical Garden's 2010 Italian Kitchen Garden.
Please call us at 416.361.0032 to reserve tickets. Tickets are $100 each (includes the book, dinner, wine, and a $35 receipted donation to the Toronto Botanical Garden).
Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style by Marjorie HarrisHouse of Anansi Press  Best-selling author Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life. From tips on how to haggle to becoming a frugal fashionista, maintaining your home on a budget, and thrifty gardening, travel, and entertainment, Harris provides essential guidelines to living a quality life on less. Written in her trademark witty, engaging, and accessible style, Thrifty is packed with simple and savvy tips drawn from her own fulfilled, thrifty experience. Bonus tips come from renowned experts such as best-selling author Margaret Atwood, chef Jamie Kennedy, actor R. H. Thomson, travel writer Sylvia Fraser, and The Globe and Mail's style columnists. |
 Marjorie Harris is considered one of Canada's leading garden writers. She has a garden column in The Globe & Mail, gives speeches all over Canada, and was Editor-in-Chief of Gardening Life magazine. Born in Shaunovon, Saskatchewan back in the mists of time, she was educated from Goose Bay Labrador to Vancouver B. C., and graduated in Honours English from McMaster University. |