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God I love this women's books! Her writing style is so comfortable and lyrical...it's just a joy to read. Again, as in her previous book, she effortlessly weaves together multiple stories to one conclusion with a sigh.I just have to include some quotes from the book:"Sometimes it was rather luxurious to be in the passenger seat. You could let your mind wander.""There is a differece between taking care of and caring for.""Some days words seemed more like clothes, created to distract attention fro...
This is a sequel to The School of Essential Ingredients, which I enjoyed so much. Many of the same characters from Lillian's restaurant are back in this novel with updates on their lives.Chloe is now living with Isabelle whose Alzheisers' is worsening and Tom and Lillian are spending more time together. We have new characters. We meet Lillian's accountant Al and his wife Louise. There's a new dishwasher, Finnegan. And we meet two of Isabelle's children and a grandchild. It's a lot of people to k...
I adored. Absolutely and utterly adored The School of Essential Ingredients. It came as part of a package when I received The Lost Art of Mixing so that I could read it first.While food features so prominently with the relationships in The School of Essential Ingredients, it doesn't here. There, the story revolved around the recipes; the cooking and ingredients. Smell and aroma were very evocative. Here we see remembrances of days past and how they blend into the future. Relationships that seem
I am a big fan of Bauermeister's first book The School of Essential Ingredients, so I was delighted to see that her latest novel brings us back into Lillian's kitchen. It's a lovely mix of new and old characters, and, for me at least, just as magical. Each person who comes to the restaurant is lost, lonely, afraid or unhappy in some way, all have tried to ignore it and soldier on. But by mixing into Lillian's circle, these folks bump into and blend with each other, forming friendships and someti...
I loved this book....I actually think I may have liked it a little more than The School of Essential Ingredients.The book was less about Louise & more about the people around her & still involving the restaurant. There were some parts of the story that really touched a spot in my heart & I had to stop & go back & reread a few parts because of tears were in the way....I love Erica's writing style......
Erica Bauermeister writing perfectly captures your feelings and thoughts in just a few sentences. In all of her books (my favorite "Joy For Beginners"), there will be a moment when I read a paragraph and it just resonates and I'm blown away by her ability to put words together. That her novels are quick light reads is a shame. I wish that she would write a novel that would make me stick it in my customer's faces and say "Read this! This is the perfect book club read." In this novel, she absolute...
I so enjoyed the first book "The School of Essential Ingredients" and for the most part I enjoyed this one. Some of the characters in the first book are revisited and we are introduced to some new ones. It was good to continue getting to know Chloe, Isabelle, Tom and Lillian. Finnegan is an interesting soul with his blue books. I too thought that the Louise story line ended very abruptly. I was sorry Al didn't get his ritual book back. The ritual of Isabelle's 'throne was fun and I would have li...
This is the sequel to The School of Essential Ingredients and I read this as an early reviewer. Lillian, a chef and restauranteur, is back again and struggling in her relationship with Tom, who is still in mourning over his wife. Her assistant, Chloe, is trying to heal after heartbreak and is living with Isabelle, who is slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Al, Lillian's accoutant, is trying to find a way to make his wife Louise happy and failing miserably, because Louise's issues are nothing he ca...
2.5* for the book itselfSimilar in style to Olive Kitteridge, so if you liked that you will probably like this better than I did. The book is really a series of interconnected short stories of the lives of various people connected to a restaurant in the Pacific northwest. I find this manner of storytelling frustrating in that as soon as I get interested in a character, Bauermeister leaves that person. I guess that my reaction to this just confirms my sense that I don't care for the contemporary
Actual rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!)Just like a delicious meal at one of my favorite restaurants, Erica Bauermeister’s novels are consistently pleasing and something to which I look forward with great anticipation. I received an ARC from the author several months in advance of its publication, but held off reading it until I had the chance to reread The School of Essential Ingredients. After listening to that lovely novel, I eagerly picked up this sequel and quickly devoured it, in spite of my effor...
Erica Bauermeister writes with an enormous amount of heart, and this book is no exception to that. It's advertised as a sequel, but it's truly not necessary to read "The School of Essential Ingredients" prior to reading this book. The story is lovely and the characters absolutely reflect what William Faulkner said characters should reflect: The human heart in conflict. This novel has that in spades as well as a beautifully painted setting and lush sensory details. It's the kind of novel that giv...
The Lost Art of Mixing is a sequel to The School of Essential Ingredients. It is a lovely stand alone read, however, I think the reader would benefit from reading the first book as many characters return. Chef Lillian runs her small restaurant where people meet at her cooking classes and relationships develop. By inter-connecting stories, she shows the imperfect characters' struggles and flaws with compassion and you care about their journeys. I liked how Bauermeister employs imagery from food a...
