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John Harris (contact to purchase) Produced and Directed by Bill Chayes and L. John Harris A Co-Production of KPBS, San Diego and Harris/Chayes Productions Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar tells the inspiring story of Celedonio Romero, a noted guitar virtuoso and gifted composer from Malaga, Spain braved civil war and artistic oppression to become the patriarch of a family of brilliant guitar soloists, and the creator of the world’s first guitar quartet. With inimitable grace and gorgeous music, the film provides insight into the colorful history of the classical guitar through the life and times of one of the premier families in music. Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar has aired in two National PBS prime time “specials” and was nominated for an EMMY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148202379-JNI3RE3JGIE1H5NNP00R/GV9A2667.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - The Book of Garlic Celebrating its 50th anniversary! Special 50th Anniversary Offer: For serious garlic lovers only… Signed copies of The Book of Garlic and The Official Garlic Lovers Handbook, plus a Fight Mouthwash/Eat Garlic bumper sticker (from Lovers of the Stinking Rose) and a signed copy of the inaugural issue of Garlic Times newsletter from 1975. $250 (plus $25 tax and shipping). Contact ljohnharris2024@gmail.com for more information. Available through: Amazon L. John Harris (contact to purchase) Garlic activist and creator of Lovers of the Stinking Rose Club and the Garlic Times newsletter, which inspired garlic festivals and garlic themed restaurants from California to New York, L. John Harris brings an encyclopedic knowledge of all things garlic with The Book of Garlic. “Admirably researched and well written…” -Craig Claiborne, New York Times “Highly entertaining…” -Gourmet Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1615842045815-DBWKOHUXCEC9Z4JC9EQN/a+self+serving+chef.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/73bc4616-1633-4334-bb2b-da6c6c6281b8/PINR+Cover.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession Forthcoming from Heyday Books November 2024 Available from independent bookstores everywhere The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond. While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red head covering, fixing her viewer with a foreboding gaze. The painting bears no signature, only the date: January 12, 1935. Harris, a journalist and illustrator, embarks on a multi-year quest to uncover the story behind the painting. His sleuthing has given birth to Portrait in Red, a wide-ranging exploration of art and its enduring mysteries. With wit and a contagious enthusiasm, Harris traces unexpected connections between Paris on the eve of World War II, his bohemian life in the San Francisco Bay Area, the aura of original paintings, the magic of found objects, and the aesthetics of a perfect croque monsieur. Portrait in Red will delight lovers of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes or Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief. By turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is an existential detective story, set among world tragedies, art-historical epiphanies, and comic hijinks. “This odyssey fascinated me. The discarded painting that Harris picks up one day in Paris leads him on an irresistible quest for answers: who created this compellingly frank image? Who is the girl portrayed? Who put the picture out with the trash? Speaking as an art historian and museum curator, I found his detective story deeply absorbing in its humanity, as well as credible in its research. Here it is, fully embodied, the passionate curiosity that drives all human seekers.” -Lynne D. Ambrosini, Ph.D., Deputy Director / Chief Curator Emerita, Taft Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1614910289703-O7TFD56NW4FSZT8EGA45/marcin-dylla-vintage.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Vintage Marcin Dylla Harris Guitar Collection Available through: L. John Harris (contact to purchase) The noted Polish virtuoso, Marcin Dylla, who joined the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a guest instructor for the Fall of 2016 semester, immediately fell in love with the guitars in the Harris Guitar Collection. After playing the collection's 40 guitars, Marcin selected three to record pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Manuel Ponce and Benjamin Britten. "Dylla could undoubtedly record these pieces on a $250 guitar and make them sound wondrous, but an added bonus to this CD is that he used three magnificent instruments that are part of the Harris Guitar Collection housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music... a 1965 Ignacio Fleta originally built for Carlos Barbosa-Lima on the Ponce Variations; an 1888 Antonio de Torres originally owned by Miguel Llobet for the Villa-Lobos; and a 1948 Hermann Hauser I for the Britten." -Classical Guitar Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619147964548-Q2QSMTKMZTHOOU51VPGH/GV9A2678.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Foodoodles: From the Museum of Culinary History (Winner, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, Category: Illustrated Memoir) Available through: Amazon and independent bookstores Distributed to the book trade by Itasca Books A collection of cartoons and commentaries by illustrator and writer L. John Harris from his Foodoodle byline, launched in 1988, and published in several Bay Area magazines. Read more “At every image I laugh, or take initial umbrage, or think [Harris] has gone too far, or not far enough, but I always end up loving them because they have spontaneity, candor, and are always true.” -Jeremiah Tower, from his foreword https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1614913452041-PWW2E3IJ4JL2704TSSDD/divine5.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Divine Food: 100 Years in the Kosher Delicatessen Trade Available through: L. John Harris (contact to purchase) Produced by L. John Harris and Bill Chayes Directed by Bill Chayes Based on material from The Deli Book by L. John Harris A Deli Project Production in association with the Judah L. Magnes Museum When standing at the Deli counter, do you wonder what makes a good pastrami sandwich kosher? Our film offers a tell all, behind the scenes look at the Biblically based kosher meat manufacturing process. The film focuses on the immigrant Oscherwitz family, manufacturers of Kosher deli products since the 1880's. Divine Food has been broadcast on 18 PBS affiliate stations, has appeared with great success in 20 film festivals across the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1649102857105-FBHWUVELAXL8CLUABCG4/PlagueBookcover.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - My Little Plague Journal Available through: Amazon and independent bookstores Distributed to the book trade by Itasca Books When a global pandemic, climate catastrophe and news of social and political chaos descended upon Berkeley, California in the Spring of 2020, artist and writer L. John Harris put aside all other projects to document the painful, surreal and at times hilarious effects on his community, his home, his mind and body, and on his gustatory pleasures. Read more "A fiery collage of texts, photographs, and illustrations offering an intimate record of pandemic life. Harris weaves abundant historical and cultural references into this portrait of a singular time and place framework, capturing for the future his drift of thought in a polarized era." -Publishers Weekly/BookLife https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148660330-FXZWPZH9CH1CO3G27WY8/Bread+Friends+LJH+Illustration.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148660749-L9PUQQNOUKJIKI4AAJ3R/Buillon+Gold+LJH+Illustration.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148677066-XHEMK67SLHUYQANYVQQ6/Gout+Taste+LJH+Illustration.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148665350-T8BXIY436YFT55FFIK0J/Cafe+Ballet+LJH+Illustration.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148670153-Q16TSNBSOO3YISRJ8CRM/CoCo+LJH+Illustration.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1615335451868-EMI6NAK9ETOK8H0DVCMR/cropped+LJH+Illustration+Website+2.png Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - A set of 5 colored prints (11”x17”) from Café French Available for purchase for $45 plus tax and shipping. $100 for signed prints. Contact ljohnharris2024@gmail.com to purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1620260219393-M2VZK4FYFEPNVEKEYYJ3/Cafe+French+cropped.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Café French: A Flâneur's Guide to the Language, Lore and Food of the Paris Cafe (Winner: Paris Book Festival, Category: Travel) Available through: Amazon and independent bookstores Distributed to the book trade by Itasca Books The iconic, strolling Paris flâneur of the 19th century often expressed his ironic observations of the spectacular city he loved in paint, prose and poetry. Celebrated artist-flâneurs have served up brilliant, if sometimes dark, images of the City of Light. Now, following in their august footsteps, Berkeley writer and artist L. John Harris channels the historic flâneur with his witty café French “lessons” and whimsical illustrations taken from his Paris café journals…Read more “This amusing and instructive book distills Parisian flânerie—that blend of urban strolling and conversation that fuses literary, spatial and historical life—with playful images and witty narrative about the notorious flâneurs of yore.” -W. Scott Haine, author The World of the Paris Café https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/1619148078431-YUSM9SDUE5DL42ULE10U/GV9A2669.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - The Official Garlic Lovers Handbook Available through: Amazon L. John Harris (contact to purchase) The Official Garlic Lovers Handbook briefly traces the history of garlic, explains how to grow and cook with it, shares a variety of recipes, and discusses garlic's medicinal properties. “Garlic sales are soaring…and if any individual could be held responsible, it would have to be Lloyd J. Harris…” -Newsday “When John Harris suggested that Chez Panisse start a garlic festival, I was charmed by the idea. John had been a waiter during our first few chaotic weeks in business, so he [had] a familiarity with the spirit of the restaurant…What I think I appreciate most about the Handbook is that it explains how garlic can find its right use depending on its variety, the time of the year it is picked, and the kinds of foods with which it is served.” -Alice Waters, from her preface https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f03b20d96a05d79d9aa8e67/06e25684-c601-441e-9fc2-96d1955827d3/george.jpg Books, Films, CDs & Illustration - Vintage Sakellariou Harris Guitar Collection Available through: L. John Harris (contact to purchase)