Book fair features culinary talent

(LA)Among the cookbook authors appearing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is Sherry Yard (“The Secrets of Baking”), who demonstrates recipes at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

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Cooking demonstrations and panel discussion. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. Panel discussion with, among others, Times columnist Russ Parsons, on “The Life and Legacy of Julia Child,” Sunday 3:30 p.m. Cooking demonstrations Saturday: Ludo Lefebvre (“Crave”), 11 a.m.; Giada De Laurentiis (“Everyday Italian”), 12:30 p.m.; Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger (“Cooking With Too Hot Tamales”), 2 p.m.; Canadian chefs Alistair Barnes and Jasmin Kobajica, 3:30 p.m. Also, on Sunday: Tracy Griffith (“Sushi American Style”), 11 a.m.; Sherry Yard, 12:30 p.m.; Tyler Florence (“Eat This Book”), 2 p.m.; Georges Chauvet (“Canadian Culinary Road Trip”), 3:30 p.m.

Admission, free. Parking, $7. Information www.latimes.com/events.