Cookbook Club: The Last Course

$115 · Offered by Kitchen Arts & Letters · No longer available

All spaces for this month's cookbook club have been filled! But you have other options: click here to learn about the summer season. Cookbook club instructor Annette Tomei will help you prepare to make the most of this contemporary classic. You'll receive cooking tips, shopping help, advance prep techniques, and the experienced enthusiasm of a renowned teacher, historian, and traveler. Meets on Zoom, Tuesday, June 11 and Tuesday, June 25, 7:00-8:30 pm Eastern Time. Originally published in 2001, The Last Course was Claudia Fleming's collection of desserts from Gramercy Tavern, where she was then pastry chef. A visionary book, it combined a focus on seasonality with an interest in ingredients that, at that point, seemed slightly off-beat. The book's initial life was short and it was soon out of print. It was treasured, however, by pastry cooks and serious home bakers, who loved Fleming's sense of flavor and her meticulous style, carefully captured by co-writer Melissa Clark. Prices for second-hand copies climbed to extraordinary levels and we found it almost impossible to get people to part with copies, even if they'd never cooked from the book. They knew it was something valuable. So hurrah for this new printing, which makes the book accessible again to so many more people! If you've never fallen under the spell of The Last Course , here's how The New York Times ' Julia Moskin explains the appeal of the book and of Claudia Fleming: Eventually, her signature style of starting w

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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