false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235767676m/4313522.jpg 4313522 9 The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. Students include Claire, a young mother struggling with the demands of her family; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer learning to adapt to life in America; and Tom, a widower mourning the loss of his wife to breast cancer. Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students’ lives. One by one the students are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of Lillian’s food, including a white-on-white cake that prompts wistful reflections on the sweet fragility of love and a peppery heirloom tomato sauce that seems to spark one romance but end another. Brought together by the power of food and companionship, the lives of the characters mingle and intertwine, united by the revealing nature of what can be created in the kitchen. 4361300 book 22 1 2009 The School of Essential Ingredients total:1020|5:253|4:385|3:277|2:88|1:17| 1020 3829 2007 459 5 8 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:20:17 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 02:28:07 -0800 2008


This is a glorious book. It's about food as a touchstone and a means for memory, community, nurturing, healing, loving, seduction, sustenance, pleasure, joy, beginn...more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 05:19:36 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:34:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 06:11:53 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 06:12:15 -0800 2009
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This novel is, above all else, a beautifully written character study of each student in Lillian's class. Each...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 21:30:24 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 20:41:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 18:47:55 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 18:47:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 12:45:52 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 09:53:01 -0800 2009 The School of Essential Ingredients allows readers a peak into the life of each student and we watch with pleasure as their worlds realign and come toget...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 16 05:18:52 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 13:10:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:27:07 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:36:48 -0800 2009 1 8 false false Wed Oct 29 18:59:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 07:23:50 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 18:59:00 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Wed Mar 04 13:25:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:25:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 11:37:39 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 15:23:42 -0800 2009
She became...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 11:41:59 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 12:12:27 -0700 2009 The School of Essential Ingredients. Erica Bauermeister shows equal passion for the English language and food by painting beautiful pictures of food through creative and engaging language. The School of Essential Ingredients is a collection of short stories weaved around a Mond...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 16:25:26 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 09:17:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Jan 21 11:53:17 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 11:55:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 09 00:29:58 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 21:30:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 11:08:06 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 11:10:31 -0800 2008 1
On Monday nights, Lillian closes her restaurant to customers and opens her arms to th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:09:12 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:52:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 10:59:09 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 17:32:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 09:24:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 07:19:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 14 10:09:20 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 09:00:30 -0700 2009
What I love about this book is having access to the sensuality of the author's writing. She has a way of making fresh ingredients sound luscious and the act of preparing food ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4313522