Once a month, on Monday evening, eight students meet in Lillian’s restaurant for a cooking lesson. They are young and old, male and female, married or single or widowed, with varying degrees of kitchen experience. They think they’ve come to learn Lillian’s secrets to producing wonderful food, and they do, but they also gain so much more from the classes. Their lives become entwined, and they discover over the months the power that lovingly prepared food has to change people. Reminiscent of Choclat by Joanne Harris.