Central Baptist Church Book Club
Welcome to Central Baptist Church book club. We meet once a month to discuss a variety of books of all genre, while consuming copious amounts of coffee and cake. It would be great to meet new book lovers and everyone is welcome, so please do come along.
Next Meeting:
Friday November 7 Topic:
The Food of Love by Anthony Capella Venue:
Victoria Lounge, Central Baptist Church Time:
10:30am - Noon
At last - some literature from the book club that you can understand without needing an IQ in the low 180s. Okay - it looks a bit like chick lit but hey you can't have everything.
Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped (can you believe it? inexpert groping at the Book Club!) by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi -- it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast, Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems.