Events › 2022 Druker Award & Lecture: Chef Barbara Lynch

The Druker Award is presented annually to a speaker or speakers who has or have made outstanding and important contributions to the world of design. Please note that attendance is now once again in-person and over Zoom webinar. To register for in-person attendance, please use the "Registration Required" box on this calendar entry. To register for virtual attendance, please visit this link.

This year's awardee, Chef/Owner of the Boston-based Barbara Lynch Collective, will be in conversation with Boston Public Library President David Leonard. Following the discussion, which will include details about Barbara Lynch's memoir Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire, there will be an audience Q&A. Druker Company President Ronald M. Druker will give welcoming remarks.

“If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you’ll devour the feisty and fun memoir by James Beard award-winning chef and philanthropist Barbara Lynch.”
— ELLE

As Chef/Owner of the Boston-based Barbara Lynch Collective, Barbara Lynch oversees seven celebrated culinary concepts, including No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, The Butcher Shop, Stir, Drink, Sportello, and Menton. Her cookbook, Stir: Mixing It Up in The Italian Tradition, received the prestigious Gourmand Award for Best Chef Cookbook, and she shares her life story through her memoir, Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire, released April 11, 2017.

Barbara is the only female American Grand Chef Relais & Châteaux, and has earned two James Beard Foundation Awards (Best Chef: Northeast and Outstanding Restaurateur) as well as an Amelia Earhart Award for her success in a male-dominated field. In 2017, Barbara was named to the TIME 100, TIME Magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people.

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