2.0-//205.153.116.232//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9//GREGORIANPUBLISHThetford LibrariesThetford, Vermonthttps://thetfordlibrary.orgAmerica/New_YorkAmerica/New_YorkAmerica/New_York2026-11-01T02:00:002027-11-07T02:00:00EST-04:00-05:002027-03-14T02:00:002028-03-12T02:00:00EDT-05:00-04:00ai1ec-6406@thetfordlibrary.org2026-10-09T11:17:39ZGastronomy III Book Discussion Series<div class="ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely"><img src="https://thetfordlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Big-Night-Poster-255x300.png" width="255" height="300" /></div><p><strong>Gastronomy III – Library Book Discussion Series (with a bonus film)</strong></p> <p>Join us for our Fall/Winter season as we explore how food fuels experiences, societies and cultures. We’ll be digging into a classic memoir of kitchen culture, the perils and perplexities of immigration, and the life-changing potential of feeding others and ourselves. Book discussions take place at noon in the Latham Library Community Room and include a voluntary potluck lunch, featuring foods inspired by the books and film. To register and reserve a book, please contact librarian@thetfordlibrary.org.</p> <p><strong>October 23 – Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain – non-fiction</strong><br /> When this book made its startling debut in 2000, it launched the author’s media career. Bourdain’s blunt account of unsavory and other aspects of working in high-end restaurant kitchens has since become a classic of food literature.</p> <p><strong>November 20 – Solito – Javier Zamora – non-fiction</strong><br /> At age 9, Javier Zamora left his home in El Salvador to join his parents in the U.S. This memoir of his harrowing journey is told from his perspective as a young boy.</p> <p><strong>December 4 – The Big Night – film – script by Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci</strong><br /> Based on the novel by Joseph Tropiano, this film is the hilarious and poignant story of two brothers from Italy, who open a restaurant in New Jersey, hoping that the meal they prepare for an appearance by famous Italian-American bandleader Louis Prima, will save their culinary dreams.</p> <p><strong>January 22, 2026 – Kitchen Front – Jennifer Ryan – fiction</strong><br /> Two years into World War II, four British women compete to co-host a wartime BBC radio cooking show to improve their own lives and to help other housewives cope with food rationing.</p> <p><strong>February 26 – The Girl With the Louding Voice – Abi Dare – fiction</strong><br /> A 14-year-old Nigerian girl seeks an education to discover her self-worth and evade her country’s negative cultural treatment of women, including child marriage, domestic servitude and gender inequality.</p> <p><strong>March 26 – Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up and What We Make When We Make Dinner – Liz Hauck – non-fiction</strong><br /> When a high school teacher decides to pursue one of her deceased father’s dreams by volunteering to run a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, one dinner eventually becomes one hundred.</p> <div class="fcbkbttn_buttons_block" id="fcbkbttn_left"></div>America/New_York2025-12-04T12:00:00America/New_York2025-12-04T13:00:00en-USprLatham Library0https://thetfordlibrary.org/event/gastronomy-iii-book-discussion-series-3/freethumbnail;https://thetfordlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Big-Night-Poster-150x150.png;150;150;1,medium;https://thetfordlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Big-Night-Poster-255x300.png;255;300;1,large;https://thetfordlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Big-Night-Poster.png;495;583;