Katherine Anderson presents 'The London Plane Flower & Cookbook'

Third Place Books welcomes restaurateur Katherine Anderson for a conversation about her new book, The London Plane Flower & Cookbook, which celebrates beloved restaurant The London Plane's ten years as a Pioneer Square institution through recipes, essays, and photography.

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The London Plane restaurant and flower shop was a special place. For ten years (2013-2022), it anchored a corner in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, welcoming both locals and visitors from afar. This book remembers its heart and soul, celebrating the community of cooks, bakers, florists, servers, and beloved customers.

Katherine Anderson, in collaboration with chefs and creatives who were a part of The London Plane, organizes The London Plane Flower & Cook Book around the calendar year. Each chapter contains a reflection about life at The LP during that month, an essay about the season’s flowers, and a number of recipes from our kitchen and bakery, including some of the most popular recipes such as the Buttermilk Biscuit, Michael’s Plane Bread, Chicken Pot Pie, and our Granola. Over 150 remarkable photographs and illustrations of the place, its recipes, and flowers accompany the text.

Proudly produced and designed in collaboration with Seattle-based Marquand Books. This limited edition book is perfect for anyone who loves flowers, cooking, photography, memoirs, or cherishes the beauty that was The London Plane.

Contributors include Danny Conkling, Dorothée Brand, Emily Dann, Honnah Weber, Isvald Klingels, Kyle Johnson, Mehdi Boujrada, Melissa Smithers, Michael Sanders, Sako Gordon, Sophie Handler, way thị sum, Yasuaki Saito, Zach Lucido, and Zarah Kahn.

For 10 years, Katherine Anderson owned and operated the restaurant and flower shop in Seattle called The London Plane (2014-2023). Her book chronicling that decade of food and flowers in Pioneer Square comes out in May. Organized around the calendar year, the book contains seasonal recipes as well as reflections on the community the place built and the flowers used in the shop throughout the seasons.

Katherine also owns and operates a small organic flower farm, called Marigold and Mint, in the Snoqualmie Valley, which she started in 2008. Before The London Plane, Katherine had a flower shop, also called Marigold and Mint, on Capitol Hill. Prior to this chapter in her working life, Katherine received a master’s in landscape architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and before that, worked in journalism in New York City. Since closing The London Plane Katherine has been writing, farming, making pottery, and painting. She also collaborates on various floral and sculptural projects.

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