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 Winemaker’s Wife and Kristin Harmel, the author, will be joining us!

Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they’ll be exposed, but for Céline, the French-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater—rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.

When Céline recklessly follows her heart in one desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the vineyard that ties them together.

New York, 2019: Recently divorced, Liv Kent is at rock bottom when her feisty, eccentric French grandmother shows up unannounced, insisting on a trip to France. But the older woman has an ulterior motive—and a tragic, decades-old story to share. When past and present finally collide, Liv finds herself on a road to salvation that leads right to the caves of the Maison Chauveau.

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)