Join us, along with our friends from Calvert Library, as, each month, we read, discuss, and digest one of our favorite culinary novels. Spend the month reading the book and then join us for a discussion while we enjoy a meal featuring foods from the novel. This month, we’re reading Sourdough: or, Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market.

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her―feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.

Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market―and a whole new world opens up.

6-8 pm

Format: Demonstration/Virtual & In-Person

Free virtual log-in

$65: in-person (join the conversation and enjoy food from the book prepared for the class)

$99: VIP in-person (arrive up to one hour before the start of the class to enjoy a complimentary drink with an artisan cheese board on our second floor balcony; then join the conversation and enjoy food from the book prepared for the class)