A local love affair: a Best Friend Cookie, a latte, and a slow morning on the porch at Harken or sister cafe, the Harbinger. In celebration of their first cookbook launch last month – Harbinger & Harken, Stories and Recipes From Our Kitchens to Yours – Greer Gilchrist, the powerhouse behind the recipes at both bakeries, sits down with Kate Boyette, producer, writer, and editor, to talk all things delicious that went into producing the cookbook that resulted from years of baking and cooking in two of the most beloved cafes on the Peninsula. Featuring 40 recipes from Greer, and her favorite memories in the kitchen and the adventurous moments they went through to build both spots, the cookbook relives stories with co-owner, Cameron Neal. A la carte: their famous Best Friend Cookies and coffee, to enjoy during the program.
To purchase a copy of the book, please visit The Harbinger’s website HERE.
About the Book
About Kate Boyette
Kate Boyette started in N.Y.C. with independent film production, which led her to L.A. to work at Creative Artist Agency. Underwhelmed teaching celebrities how to drive their Priuses, she left CAA and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu. Since then, her culinary pursuits and events took her from Texas to Park City, Utah, to eventually, Charleston, S.C. as the first editor-in-chief of the culinary publication, The Local Palate. She recently launched her boutique cookbook publishing company, Mise En Place Publishing, which published the female literary magazine, REVISIONIST in 2025, and earned her MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, thus combining her two loves—cooking and storytelling. Currently, she’s seeking representation for her first novel and writing essays about motherhood, divorce, and culinary on her Substack page, “unpublished.”
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