Food events at the LA Times Festival of Books

Lots of chefs and authors will be at the L.A. Times Festival of Books next weekend -- on Saturday, the panel "Food Fight: When Did Eating Get Controversial?" features Barry Glassner, Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan. It's the closest we're going to get to the New Yorker Festival, so check it out.
Here's the cooking stage schedule for Saturday:

11:00am, Govind Armstrong, Author, “Small Bites, big Nights”

12:30pm, Dave Lieberman, Author, “Dave’s Dinners”

2:00pm, Cat Cora, Author, “Cooking from the Hip”

3:30pm, Ted Allen, Author, “The Food You Love to Eat”

and Sunday:

11:00am, Martin Yan, Author, “Martin Yan Quick & Easy”

12:30pm, Barbara Fairchild & Janet McCracken, Authors, “The Bon Appetit Cookbook”

2:00pm, Nancy Silverton, Author, “A Twist of the Wrist”

3:30pm, Lidia Bastianich, Author, “Lidia’s Italy”