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November 2022 - Cassoulet Confessions

For November's meeting, we are reading Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar.

Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie BigarPlease find the details below for the next meeting:

Location: Lavender Hill Designs
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm
Book: Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar

Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity.

Set in the stunning southern French countryside, this honest and poignant memoir conveys hunger for authentic food and a universal hunger for home. In Cassoulet Confessions, Sylvie travels across the Atlantic from her home in New York to the origin of cassoulet – the Occitanie region of Southern France. There she immerses herself in all things cassoulet: the quintessential historic meat and bean stew. From her first spoonful, she is transported back to her dramatic childhood in Geneva, Switzerland, and finds herself journeying through an unexpected rabbit hole of memories. Not only does she discover the deeper meanings of her ancestral French cuisine, but she is ultimately transformed by having to face her unsettling, complex family history.

Sylvie's simple but poetic prose immerses us in her story: we smell the simmering aromas of French kitchens, empathize with her family dilemmas, and experience her internal struggle to understand and ultimately accept herself.

This book is available on Amazon, Kindle and Barnes and Noble.

If you can’t make a book club meeting that’s fine. There’s always next month! If you are planning to attend, please R.S.V.P to info@lavenderhilldesigns.com or (843) 352-7042. 

I hope everyone stays well and heathy until our next meeting. 

~ Tracey

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