The School of Essential Ingredients

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A lesson in cake-making leads to reflections on a marriage; tortillas teach a girl to believe in herself. A man learns about love while creating tiramisu. The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight cooking students and their teacher in a class that meets in Lillian's restaurant kitchen. Over the course of eight months, the lives of the characters mingle and intertwine, brought together by the revealing, sensual, and comforting nature of what can be created in the kitchen.

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Erica Bauermeister fell in love with slow food and the slow life while living in northern Italy with her family. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle. This is her first novel.