Long Table Gatherings | Workshops | Cooking Classes | Supper Clubs | Fantasy Feasts | A-Z Cookbook Guide | Global Happiness Guides | Membership Community
Story Feast Experiential Dining Events are communal gatherings held in unforgettable settings around the world. They feature celebrated chefs, inspiring producers, long table dinners, and food to dream about later.
2026-2027 Story Feast Events
Edinburgh, Scotland | Minneapolis, Minnesota | County Clare, Ireland | Tallinn, Estonia | The Cotswolds, England | Prague, Czech Republic | Fes, Morocco | & Gothenburg, Sweden
SHOP
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![Cookbook coaching and proposal development services — personalised guidance for aspiring cookbook authors from concept to publisher]()
COOKBOOK SERVICES
A cookbook masterclass, 1:1 coaching, proposal reviews, and hands-on development for anyone writing a cookbook (or thinking about it!). Whether you're a home cook with a family story, a chef, an influencer, or someone in the food industry making the leap to publishing, these services are for you. Pick up the self-guided masterclass or work directly with a James Beard nominated, IACP award winning cookbook author who's been through every stage of the process and wants to help demystify it and ultimately, get your cookbook published!
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![Story Feast experiential dining event — chef-led dinner at a long table in a historic venue with candlelight and guests gathering]()
IMMERSIVE DINING EVENTS
Chef-led dinners in monasteries, castles, and extraordinary venues around the world. Each gathering brings together celebrated chefs, local producers, and guests who believe the best conversations happen around a long table. 2026-2027 planned for Scotland, Minnesota, Ireland, England, Estonia, The Czech Republic, Morocco, and Sweden. Tickets for the Minneapolis event on Oct. 24th available now.
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![Story Feast Membership — a global online community for food writers and cookbook authors with weekly interviews writing sessions and exclusive content]()
STORY FEAST MEMBERSHIP
A global community for writers and anyone else looking for inspiration, fresh ideas and genuine connection. Weekly live interviews with culinary luminaries, five live writing sessions per week with members worldwide, exclusive recipes, a private forum, and early access and discounts on everything Story Feast offers. Three tiers so you can find the one that fits.
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![Story Feast Online Cooking Classes: live virtual cooking classes with cookbook author Jody Eddy featuring monastery kitchen Nordic table plant-based temple cuisine and global pantry themes]()
COOKING CLASSES
Live, interactive classes tailor-made for your group along with monthly themed courses around monastery kitchens, Nordic cuisine, plant-based temple cooking, and global flavors. Inspired by my cookbooks and a lifetime of eating around the world. Available online and in-person. Next class: The Monastery Kitchen on June 13th.
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![Story Feast workshops and masterclasses — live and on-demand sessions on monastic wisdom cookbook writing and Nordic happiness led by Jody Eddy]()
WORKSHOPS
From monastic wisdom to Nordic happiness to the art of cookbook writing to relocating and designing your life abroad. Live and on-demand workshops for individuals, teams, and organizations. Led by a James Beard-nominated author who has taught for Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, libraries, public health organizations, and every group in between.
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![Story Feast Field Guide Lagom cover — monthly cultural happiness series with recipes rituals and reflection prompts]()
STORY FEAST FIELD GUIDES
A monthly series exploring how different cultures find happiness: from Swedish lagom to South African ubuntu to Korean nunchi to Danish hygge to Japanese wabi-sabi. Each guide includes recipes, daily rituals, and practical wisdom you can start using today. A new concept arrives on the 1st of every month.
This April it’s Lagom: The Swedish Art of Enough
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![Story Feast consulting services — one on one video coaching for cookbook authors event planners and expats with personalized pre-session preparation]()
CONSULTING SERVICES
Personalized guidance for wherever you are in your journey: whether you're writing a cookbook, planning an event, building a life abroad, or simply figuring out what comes next. 1:1 video sessions with a pre-session questionnaire so every minute counts. Cookbook coaching, event consulting, expat guidance, and more.
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![The Monastery Method and Cookbook Writing Masterclass handbook covers — practical guides for modern living and cookbook publishing]()
HANDBOOKS & WORKBOOKS
Deep-dive guides for people who want to do something real like build daily practices from ancient monastic wisdom, or write and publish the cookbook you've been carrying in your head. Comprehensive and practical tools that offer information and advice that is tangible and useful.
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![Story Feast Snail Mail Club — monthly subscription with handwritten letters original recipe cards hand-drawn postcards stickers and seasonal surprises shipped worldwide]()
STORY FEAST SNAIL MAIL CLUB
Once a month, an envelope arrives at your door filled with an original recipe card, a handwritten letter, a hand-drawn postcard you can send on to someone who needs it, stickers, and a small seasonal surprise. Real things you can hold in your hands, from someone who still believes a letter carries more weight than a notification. Shipped worldwide.
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![Story Feast Gift Card — digital gift card redeemable on cooking classes workshops field guides consultations and all Story Feast products]()
STORY FEAST GIFT CARDS
Know someone who could use a little more connection, good food, or intention in their life? A Story Feast gift card is redeemable on anything in the shop: immersive dining events, workshops, field guides, cooking classes, consultations, and more. Delivered instantly by email.
“The dinner served as a meditation on community, craft, and care."
- Taycier Elhindi, Minnesota Monthly
JOIN STORY FEAST COLLECTIVE
A bi-weekly writing group. Uplifting interviews every week. Free monthly online cooking class. Recipes that work. Useful workshops and guides. Genuine connection with the Story Feast community. Early access and discounts on everything!
✓ Weekly live interviews with inspiring guests
✓ Weekly writing sessions with our global community (Tues, Thurs)
✓ Discounts on all events, workshops, consulting sessions, field guides & snail mail club
✓ Free monthly live online cooking class
✓ Early access to gatherings worldwide
✓ Private community forum
✓ Access to entire digital archive
ABOUT STORY FEAST
Story Feast Collective hosts experiential dinners in extraordinary places, monasteries, castles, art museums, hidden historic venues, featuring celebrated chefs, local producers, and multi-course meals served family style at long communal tables. Beyond the gatherings, we offer cooking classes, cookbook writing masterclasses, cultural workshops, global happiness field guides, supper clubs, fantasy feast gatherings, consulting, and a membership community for writers and food lovers worldwide.
Founded by Jody Eddy, James Beard-nominated and IACP Award-winning author of nine cookbooks. She trained at the Institute of Culinary Education in NYC and cooked at Michelin three-starred Jean-Georges in NYC and The Fat Duck in the UK. She was the executive editor of Art Culinaire, plans conferences, teaches cooking classes, and hosts workshops for Fortune 500 Companies and every group in between. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, and The Guardian. Her most recent books are Elysian Kitchens for W.W. Norton and Eat Like a Monk for Simon & Schuster. She is from Minnesota, has lived in Europe for six years, and is currently relocating to Scotland.
BOOKS
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![Elysian Kitchens cookbook monasteries sacred spaces Jody Eddy]()
Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions & Tastes of the World's Sacred Spaces
W.W. Norton
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![North New Nordic cuisine Iceland cookbook Jody Eddy Gunnar Gislason Dill Restaurant Reykjavik]()
North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland
Ten Speed Press: Penguin Random House: IACP Award Winner
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![Chaat Indian cookbook IACP Award winner Jody Eddy]()
Chaat: Recipes From the Kitchens, Markets and Railways of India
Clarkson Potter: Penguin Random House: IACP Award Winner
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![Hygge Life Nordic coziness cookbook cozy life Jody Eddy]()
The Hygge Life: Embracing the Nordic Art of Coziness Through Recipes, Entertaining, Decorating, Simple Rituals, and Family Traditions
Ten Speed Press: Penguin Random House
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![Come In We're Closed restaurant staff meals cookbook James Beard nominated]()
Come In, We're Closed: An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World's Best Restaurants
Running Press: James Beard Nominated
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![Cuba recipes Cuban kitchen cookbook Jody Eddy]()
Cuba: Recipes and Stories From the Cuban Kitchen
Ten Speed Press: Penguin Random House
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![Eat Like a Monk plant-based cookbook Jody Eddy]()
Eat Like a Monk: A Plant-Based Guide to Conscious Cooking and Mindful Eating
Simon & Schuster
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![Wild Atlantic Way Ireland cookbook Jody Eddy]()
Recipes and Stories From Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
Gill Books
RECIPES
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![A bowl of creamy mashed parsnips topped with dark, glossy whiskey-glazed caramelized onions and fresh thyme leaves, served on a mossy stone wall.]()
Side Dish
CREAMY PARSNIPS WITH WHISKEY-GLAZED ONIONS
A Fantasy Feast Inspired by Wuthering Heights
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![Pantoufle's Spiced Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Orange Zest served in individual glasses, dusted with cocoa powder and garnished with fresh orange zest]()
Dessert
SPICED CHOCOLATE MOUSSE WITH ORANGE ZEST
A Fantasy Feast Inspired by the Movie Chocolat
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![Two mushroom shawarma wraps on a wooden board topped with caramelized portobellos, bright green pistachio pesto, charred scallions, feta, and sliced radishes, inspired by Madeline Miller's novel Circe]()
Main Dish
MUSHROOM SHAWARMA WITH PISTACHIO PESTO & WHIPPED TAHINI
A Fantasy Feast Dinner Party Inspired by Circe by Madeline Miller
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Appetizer
PEAR, CARAMELIZED ONION, WALNUT & STILTON TART
Plus: The Monastery Method
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![Orange-Ginger Olive Oil Cake Recipe]()
Dessert
ORANGE-GINGER OLIVE OIL CAKE
Third Places and The Art of Gathering
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![Vianne's Enchanted Brie Crostini: toasted baguette rounds topped with melted Brie, shaved dark chocolate, drizzled honey, and toasted hazelnuts on a rustic serving board]()
Appetizer
VIANNE'S BRIE & CHOCOLATE CROSTINI
A Fantasy Feast Inspired by the Movie Chocolat
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![Tomatillo Salsa recipe St Johns Abbey Brother Aelred]()
Condiment
TOMATILLO SALSA
From Brother Aelred Senna, St. John’s Abbey
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![Vespers cocktail recipe Phil Steger Brother Justus Whiskey Minnesota]()
Cocktail
VESPERS
From Phil Steger, founder of Brother Justus Whiskey
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![Close-up of smoked salmon rillettes in a ceramic bowl decorated with olives, served with oatcakes, inspired by the walleye rillettes from the Story Feast dinner at St. John's Abbey]()
Appetizer
SMOKED SALMON RILLETTES
Story Feast Menu: St. John’s Abbey
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![Roux's Chocolate and Cinnamon-Infused Sweet Potato Gratin with golden, bubbly Gruyère cheese in a ceramic baking dish, a Chocolat movie inspired side dish]()
Side Dish
SPICED SWEET POTATO GRATIN WITH CHOCOLATE
A Fantasy Feast Inspired by the Movie Chocolat
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![Chicken Tinga recipe from Elysian Kitchens Splendid Table]()
Main Dish
CHICKEN TINGA
From Elysian Kitchens, featured on The Splendid Table
