- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (4 Feb 2010)
- Language Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0141038837
- ISBN-13: 978-0141038834
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 257,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. There's Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; bachelor Ian, who exists on Chinese takeaways; Chloe, the distracted waitress who is forever dropping things; Carl and Helen, getting past a betrayal in their marriage; and Tom, mourning the tragic loss of his wife. Plus Lillian, who taught herself to cook to reach out to her unhappy mother.
From delicious feasts to dining disasters, will the cooks find what they are looking for? And among the utensils and mouth-watering ingredients, will some of them even fall in love?
The Monday Night Cooking School is a gorgeous novel about possibilities and the magic of food.
About the Author
Erica Bauermeister's love of slow food and the slow life was instilled by her two years of living in northern Italy with her husband and children. She currently lives in the US with her family. This is her first novel.
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Format:Paperback
I do have to agree with previous reviews on some issues.
Yes, the (British edition) title and the chick-lit cover don't do it any favours. I took it off a library shelf and those, plus the blurb on the back cover, nearly made me put it back, but then I read a paragraph or two at random.
The characters aren't meant to be deep, they just carry the story along a bit - forget them - concentrate on the words.
There are some lovely little phrases that stopped me in my tracks: "Sometimes our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given"
The food descriptions are just amazing and made me want to shout "yes, yes that's IT"
This is a book for cooks and lovers of good food.
I wanted to keep this but it has to go back to the library so I've just ordered a copy from Amazon - the American edition with the more appropriate title and cover.
Yes, the (British edition) title and the chick-lit cover don't do it any favours. I took it off a library shelf and those, plus the blurb on the back cover, nearly made me put it back, but then I read a paragraph or two at random.
The characters aren't meant to be deep, they just carry the story along a bit - forget them - concentrate on the words.
There are some lovely little phrases that stopped me in my tracks: "Sometimes our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given"
The food descriptions are just amazing and made me want to shout "yes, yes that's IT"
This is a book for cooks and lovers of good food.
I wanted to keep this but it has to go back to the library so I've just ordered a copy from Amazon - the American edition with the more appropriate title and cover.
Format:Paperback
I didn't do enough research before beginning this book. I had heard the buzz around a book entitled 'School of Essential Ingredients' and the cover gave me to believe that this may be a really intelligent sensuous and poetic novel about food and relationships - I expected real depth. (...I know, I know - never judge a book by its cover! lesson learnt - I found a copy of the same book but under the title 'The Monday Night Cooking School' and the decidedly 'chick lit' cover should have been my first warning that this book was not going to be what I expected!).
I'm disappointed. I think the idea of a collection of short stories melding into a 'whole' would have been better than to write this as a novel. As it is, I don't think that the characters were rounded out or given any depth. Their thoughts and feelings didn't resonate or draw me in and each story within the novel was for me 'unfinished' or 'rushed', they weren't connected very expertly and nothing was revisited or tied up properly.
I enjoyed the idea of food as a mirror of emotion and a healing force and some of the descriptions surrounding this aspect of the novel were delightful. But overall, this book was not what it ought to have been.
I'm disappointed. I think the idea of a collection of short stories melding into a 'whole' would have been better than to write this as a novel. As it is, I don't think that the characters were rounded out or given any depth. Their thoughts and feelings didn't resonate or draw me in and each story within the novel was for me 'unfinished' or 'rushed', they weren't connected very expertly and nothing was revisited or tied up properly.
I enjoyed the idea of food as a mirror of emotion and a healing force and some of the descriptions surrounding this aspect of the novel were delightful. But overall, this book was not what it ought to have been.
Format:Paperback
This novel is about a group of people taking a cookery class at a restaurant on Monday nights, when the restaurant is closed. Each chapter concentrates on one member of the group. It's an enjoyable read, but I felt it was lacking something. There was no depth to the characterisations at all, more a matter of fact telling of their story. The central character is Lillian, who runs the class, but we have only a very small look at her story right at the beginning. In a way, this is a book of short stories linked by the same characters.
It's still worth reading in my opinion, but I think the book needed more warmth and for the stories to be pulled together a bit more tightly.
It's still worth reading in my opinion, but I think the book needed more warmth and for the stories to be pulled together a bit more tightly.
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