and Cook Book signing – celebrate Tahoe nostalgia with Margie Lapanja owner of Margie’s Cowboy Cookies™ bakery in Tahoe City, supplying the Tahoe Basin and surrounding ski areas with the award-winning, quarter-pound Cowboy Cookie™ from 1985 until she sold the business in 1991. Launching her writing career in 1998 with her first book, Goddess in the Kitchen, a deliciously fun cookbook, reissued in 2002 as Romancing the Stove. In 1999, she wrote The Goddess’ Guide to Love, followed by two more popular cookbooks: Food Men Love (2001)  and Food That Rocks (co-authored with Cindy Coverdale released in 2004).