The Cookbook Book Club is now online!  Richard Witting will lead the discussion of this month's book over Zoom.  Please register by contacting Barbara Shatara, at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to receive meeting info.  Many of us are cooking more at home than ever before, the Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club is an opportunity to learn from experienced chefs and other home cooks on how to make the most of your pantry.  Our April book is:

Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light  by Caroline Eden

This is the tale of a journey between three great cities –  Odessa,built on a dream by Catherine the Great, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon.  With a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden travels from Odessa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey's Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odessa, to meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and charting the legacies of the White Russian émigrés in Istanbul, Caroline gives readers a unique insight into a part of the world that is both shaded by darkness and illuminated by light.