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Title: The School of Essential IngredientsAuthor: Erica Bauermeister
Genre: Foodie
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 261
Date read: July 2014, August 2020
Once a month, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman coming to terms with her new identity as a mother; Tom, a lawyer whose life has been overturned by loss; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer adapting to life in America; and Carl and Helen, a long-married couple whose union contains surprises the rest of the class would never suspect...
The students have come to learn the art behind Lillian's soulful dishes, but it soon becomes clear that each seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. And soon they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create.
Not quite as good as "Joy for Beginners", but I still really enjoyed it. Apparently I like short-stories more if they're disguised as a novel ;)
A charming book, even if I did care more about some of the characters than others, and it almost made me want to take up cooking classes myself :)
