The Library will be closed on Monday, October 14 for Indigenous Peoples' Day. 

Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club: Salt & Time

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Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking! 

In December, what better cuisine to explore than that of Russia?  Please join us for dinner and conversation of Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen by Alissa Timoshkina. Please register with Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov for meeting information.  

 

Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club: Greenfeast

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Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!  In November, build your repertoire of healthy dishes with Nigel Slater's recipes for autumn and winter.  Please join us for dinner and conversation of Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel SlaterRegister with Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov for Zoom meeting information.

About Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel Slater

FFL Book Discussion Group: Inheritance

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Join other readers at this hybrid discussion - on Zoom of Dani Shapiro's Inheritance

Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to register and to obtain Zoom info.

About This Month's Book, Dani Shapiro's Inheritance:

What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?

Food For Talk Cookbook Club: Oaxaca * DATE CHANGE*

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*NOTE Date Change*

Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!  In October, we take a deep dive into mole and other Oaxacan specialties.  Please join us for dinner and conversation about Oaxaca. Register with Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov for meeting information.

About Oaxaca by Bricia Lopez

Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club: Six Seasons

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Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!  In September, we have a cookbook for all the vegetables that you are harvesting from your garden or picking uo from the CSA.  Please join us for dinner and conversation about Six Seasons: New Ways with Vegetables  To register, contact Programming Librarian, Barbara Shatara, at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov

Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club: Indonesia

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Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!  In August, we take a culinary trip to the spice islands of Indonesia.  Please join us for dinner and conversation about Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia.

About Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia by Eleanor Ford

Unifying Black Families: Black Artists Showcase

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UNIFYING BLACK FAMILIES – NEW BOOK RELEASE – BLACK ARTIST SHOWCASE

July 30, 6-8pm  Fletcher Free Library Lawn

Rajnii Eddins reads from his new book and is joined by Black artists and writers, Harmony Edosomwan, Kia’Rae Hanron, Omega Jade, Toussaint St. Negritude, Brother Cole, Ishmael Ahmed, Julio Desmont, Javan Nichols, and Cadoux Fancy.

Racial Socialization as Resistance to Racism, the Early Years

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From Embrace Race:

When families work to help their children understand race and racism, they are engaging in a process known as racial socialization. To understand how racial socialization can be used as a tool for anti-racism, there is much to learn from families who have been racially marginalized and the lessons they have taught their children.