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Book Review of The School of Essential Ingredients (aka The Monday Night Cooking School) (School of Essential Ingredients, Bk 1)

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Helpful Score: 3


This book is truly fascinating. It's not a typical "story" with beginning, middle, and end. It's a series of stories about the individuals who make up a cooking class. And the cooking class is not normal either. It's a story about food and how it fills your memories, your life, and your senses. It's about people connecting and finding themselves. The stories are told in such a powerful, yet gentle poetic voice. It's almost trance-like in it's power to pull you in to the stories. You want to meet these people in real life, take them home, and find out what happens to them after the classes are over. It will make you look at cooking, food, and relationships in a whole new light.