The School of Essential Ingredients
2009·240 pages
Eight students join a weekly cooking class where food and companionship spark personal revelations and life changes.
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Reminiscent of Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, a gorgeously written novel about life, love, and the magic of food.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 t...
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Mild romantic themes and relationships; one romance begins while another ends
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No violence or gore depicted
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Alcohol appears in cooking and social settings
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Grief from spousal death by cancer; family struggles
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