The Moravian Book Shop presents “A Celebration of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking” with authors Maria Rodale and William Woys Weaver, 7 p.m. Nov. 15, Central Moravian Church, 428 Main St., Bethlehem. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Patrick Donmoyer of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown, leads a conversation that celebrates the Lehigh Valley region’s cultural food roots with two of the area’s most respected contributors to the legacy of Pennsylvania food and farming.

Maria Rodale is CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc, based in Emmaus. She is an award-winning activist for the organic movement, a businesswoman, and author of several books, most recently “Scratch: Home Cooking for Everyone Made Simple, Fun, and Totally Delicious,” in which she shares the recipes and remembrances that shaped her life.

Maria Rodale has made promoting the benefits of an organic lifestyle her personal mission and her business. Her books include 2010’s “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe.”

“Scratch” is her first cookbook. Rodale, an avid home cook, gardener and mother of three, chronicles her recipes, thoughts and adventures for her blog, “Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen.”

Maria Rodale, dividing her time between Rodale Inc.’s Emmaus headquarters and Manhattan offices, oversees a global business with partners around the world in 70 countries.

Rodale Inc. is the publisher of New York Times bestselling books, including Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Jessica Alba’s “The Honest Life.” Rodale’s publications include Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Prevention magazine and Rodale’s Organic Life, and the e-commerce brand Rodale’s. She is the co-chair of the Rodale Institute, Maxatawny Township, Berks County.

William Woys Weaver is an internationally-known food historian and founder and director of the Keystone Center for the Study of Regional Foods, a non-profit promoting Pennsylvania’s regional foods. He is the author of 17 books, most recently “Dutch Treats: Heirloom Recipes from Farmhouse Kitchens.”

He is a four-time winner of the IACP-Julia Child Cookbook Awards. His most recent gold medal was for “Culinary Ephemera,” an illustrated survey of old food advertising materials. His 1993 award-winning cookbook, “Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking,” is in the anthology, “100 Great American Cookbooks of the 20th Century.” “Dutch Treats” (St. Lynn’s Press) was published in September 2016.

Weaver received a Phd in food ethnography from University College, Dublin, Ireland, said to be the first degree of its kind awarded by the university. He maintains the Roughwood Seed Collection of heirloom food plants at the historic Lamb Tavern, Devon, Chester County.

Copies of “Scratch” and “Dutch Treats” will be available for purchase at the event, or may be pre-purchased at the Moravian Book Shop.

Tickets: free with reservation: 610-866-5481