Get lit with author inspired cocktails and apps

During the week of the 2017 Get Lit festival The Wandering Table, Yard’s Bruncheon, Gilded Unicorn, Lindaman’s, Hogwash Whiskey Den, Butcher Bar, Bellwether Brewing Co., Zona Blanca and Garageland will each feature specials inspired by festival authors and will donate $1 to Get Lit from each sale.

The festival will kick off Monday with a happy hour at Wandering Table Monday from 3 to 6 p.m. featuring four Get Lit author-inspired appetizers and drinks.

Emily Ruskovich, “Idaho”

Eat: Roasted Potato-Chip Salad

Smash fried red potatoes, goat cheese, pine nuts, arugula and honey mustard topped with warm potato chips and sea salt

Drink: Mountain Huckleberry

Idaho huckleberry vodka, rosemary, huckleberries, beet juice

Leyna Krow, “I’m Fine, But You Appear to be Sinking”

Eat: Deep Dark Calamari

Squid ink fried calamari and vegetables with squid ink aioli, onion ash and seaweed

Drink: Cocktail-Boston Cream Pie

Irish Cream, Pie Crust Vodka, Hazelnut and Chocolate Bitters

1 ounce Bailey’s Irish cream

1 ounce Vodka infused with pie crust and vanilla bean (strained)

1 ounce Frangelico

Splash of chocolate liqueur

Dash chocolate bitters

Cocoa powder and pie crust for dusting class.

Meghan Daum, “The Unspeakable”

Eat: Unspeakable Deviled Eggs

Deep fried deviled eggs with smoked egg yolk, sourdough aioli and bacon jam

Drink: Misspent Youth

Absinthe, orgeat, froth and a breath of orange flower water

1 1/2 ounces absinthe

1/2 ounce orgeat

1 egg white

1 dash orange flower water

2 ounces half-and-half

1/2 cup crushed ice

For the rest of the week, you can find the Daum delights at the Wandering Table, and also these:

Jason Rekulak, “The Impossible Fortress” at the Yards Bruncheon

Eat: Tuna Helper

Sweet pea salad with seared bacon cured tuna, cheddar, crispy noodles and sunflower seed aioli

Drink: Vanna White

3 ounces Sprite

2 ounces gin

1 ounce lime juice

3 slices cucumber

Jamaal May, “The Big Book of Exit Strategies” at the Gilded Unicorn

Entrée: God of Wood Frittata

Kale and red oak lettuce, cotija, roasted peppers and avocado, topped with fresh avocado, cotija cheese and cilantro

Drink: Spicy Lemonade

Jalapeño slices, ginger syrup, fresh lemonade

Other offerings

During the week, Lindaman’s Bistro will feature two cocktails inspired by local authors who use that place as their office. Owner Merrilee Lindaman read Chris Howell’s book of poems, “Dreamless and Possible,” a year ago and loved it so much she carried it around in her purse until she got a copy of his latest book, “Lost’s Last Number.”

And, finally for the writer who sits at the same Lindaman’s table six days a week pounding laptop keys and decaf, and whose Pie and Whiskey piece from a few years ago provided a low-brow recipe, Merrilee came up with a drink for me. Kindly, generously, she says my writing is both whimsical and real. Lindaman’s will feature:

Chris Howell, “Love’s Last Number”

The Birds and the Bees

A split of Prosecco

1 ounce St. Germaine

Orange zest

Rachel Toor, “Misunderstood”

“SP&B – Sweet, Pink and Boozy!”

1 ounce Makers Mark

1/2 ounce cherry syrup

Top with 7UP

Garnish with marinated Queen Anne cherry