{"id":4152,"date":"2009-08-24T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2009-08-22T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T16:46:34","slug":"the-school-of-essential-ingredients-by-erica-bauermeister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-school-of-essential-ingredients-by-erica-bauermeister\/","title":{"rendered":"The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"School<\/a>In today’s fast food world full of\u00a0instant puddings and potatoes, it is refreshing to read a book featuring real food.\u00a0But The School of<\/em><\/strong> Essential Ingredients<\/em><\/strong><\/a> also features real people.\u00a0 Each\u00a0chapter focuses on a different student in Lillian’s cooking class, revealing not only their own particular foibles and dilemmas, but also how they each contribute something satisfying and indelible to the mix. There’s Claire, a mother struggling with the demands of her young children; Tom, a young widower still grieving over the loss of his wife to breast cancer, and Isabelle, an elderly woman tentatively dealing with the confusion of memory loss, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

The book is satisfying on many levels.\u00a0First, it just made me want to bake something\u00a0— at times it seemed I could almost smell what they were cooking, even though my kitchen was very vacant.\u00a0 Then, I got nostalgic, remembering favorite dishes from my childhood, and relishing how food often brought\u00a0family together.\u00a0 Finally, in a very subtle way, I witnessed the characters\u00a0forming lasting relationships with each other and realized what a difference one person can make in another’s life.<\/p>\n

In this first novel (but third book) by Erica Bauermeister, it’s obvious that she has a “love of slow food and slow life instilled by her two years living in northern Italy.” She’s whipped up a delightful, delicious dessert of a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s fast food world full of\u00a0instant puddings and potatoes, it is refreshing to read a book featuring real food.\u00a0But The School of Essential Ingredients also features real people.\u00a0 Each\u00a0chapter focuses on a different student in Lillian’s cooking class, revealing not only their own particular foibles and dilemmas, but also[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[158,289,781,194],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-baking","tag-cooking","tag-cooking-school","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-14Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}