{"id":510,"date":"2011-01-19T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:27:52","slug":"the-school-of-essential-ingredients-by-erica-bauermeister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-514 size-full\" title=\"The School of Essential Ingredients\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the-school-of-essential-ingredients.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once a month, on Monday evening, eight students meet in Lillian&#8217;s restaurant for a cooking lesson.\u00a0 They are young and old, male and female, \u00a0married or single or widowed, with varying degrees of kitchen experience.\u00a0\u00a0They think they&#8217;ve come to learn Lillian&#8217;s secrets to producing wonderful food, and they do, but they also gain so much more from the classes.\u00a0 Their lives become entwined, and they discover \u00a0over the months\u00a0the power\u00a0that \u00a0lovingly prepared food has to change people.\u00a0\u00a0 Reminiscent of <em>Choclat<\/em> by Joanne Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a month, on Monday evening, eight students meet in Lillian&#8217;s restaurant for a cooking lesson.\u00a0 They are young and old, male and female, \u00a0married or single or widowed, with varying degrees of kitchen experience.\u00a0\u00a0They think they&#8217;ve come to learn Lillian&#8217;s secrets to producing wonderful food, and they do, but they also gain so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}