The School of Essensial Ingredients
By Erica Bauermeister
Once a month on a Monday night, 8 students gather in Lillian’s restaurant for a cooking class. among them is Claire, a young woman whose coming to terms with her new identity as a mother, Tom a sawyer 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 one by one they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create…
By Erica Bauermeister
Once a month on a Monday night, 8 students gather in Lillian’s restaurant for a cooking class. among them is Claire, a young woman whose coming to terms with her new identity as a mother, Tom a sawyer 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 one by one they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create…
By Erica Bauermeister
Once a month on a Monday night, 8 students gather in Lillian’s restaurant for a cooking class. among them is Claire, a young woman whose coming to terms with her new identity as a mother, Tom a sawyer 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 one by one they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create…