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 The School of Essential Ingredients. And we are excited to announce that the author, Erica Bauermeister, will be joining us virtually to take part on the discussion!

Once a month on a Monday night, 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....

6-8 pm

Format: Demonstration/Virtual & In-Person

Menu

Prosciutto & Melon

Spring Salad Italiano

Fresh Pasta del Mare

Tiramisu

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)