The School of Essential Ingredients
2009 • 254 pages

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Eight students 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 as 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.


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The School of Essential Ingredients is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2009 with contributions by Erica Bauermeister.

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The School of Essential Ingredients
#2
The Lost Art of Mixing

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This was an easy read for me. I thought it was great how each of the characters got a chapter about them and not only what was happening currently but also their past and how they came to be at the cooking class. A little predictable but still enjoyable.

December 4, 2018

My second read of spring break. An excellent choice for spring break. The plot is simple: A woman runs a cooking school where people come to learn to cook, yes, but also to be healed. Little magical elements in the story, but it never felt forced or excessive.

March 1, 2009

A quick enjoyable read!

November 23, 2010

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