Warm. Rich. Satisfying. This book was like a cup of hot cocoa on a chilly fall evening. Erica Bauermeister’s dreamy, succulent prose draws the reader into a place where time stands still and food can heal any soul.
Once every month, Lillian opens her restaurant’s kitchen to the students enrolled in her eight-week cooking class. You won’t find any recipes in this kitchen; in their place is a collection of ingredients of uncompromising quality and the woman who knows how to spin them into magic. Each chapter focuses on one of the students in the class and the dish that Lillian chooses to teach them that evening. Somehow, Lillian always knows what each student needs: a wedding cake for the couple that never had one, a spicy pasta sauce to shake up relationships, or a luscious crab dish to awaken lost parts of the self. Though bittersweet moments abound, each vignette brings a satisfactory conclusion and a healing of old wounds.
If you dislike similes, flowery description, and happy endings for everyone, then stay far, far away from this book. If you want lush prose you can sink into and characters you grow to love, pick up The School of Essential Ingredients.
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