Book Club for Cooks
The Stocked Pot cooking school on Jonestown Road has added a neat new feature since I wrote in February about its opening, or rather revival.
Now chef Don McMillan is leading an informal book club. Each session will include discussion of a food book, plus recreation of some of the recipes.
On June 25, the topic will be Maya Angelou’s Hallelujah the Welcome Table, which includes personal reminiscences as well as recipes. McMillan did the cooking for the book’s photography, so he has some insider stories to tell with this one.
In July, he plans to lead one about Juliie and Julia, about home cook Julie Powell and her recipe-by-recipe cooking through Julia Child’s masterpiece, Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol 1 (and one of the success stories about bloggers turning their hobby into a career).
This Stocked Pot session is planned to occur a week before the movie version, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child, opens in theaters.
McMillan will even accept suggestions about which recipes to prepare.
For more information, go to http://www.thestockedpot.com.
