Adult Programs

Irish Language Class

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.

About Salt & Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen by Alissa Timoshkina.

Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!  In November, build your repetoire 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 Slater.

About Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel Slater

December 8, 6:30pm-8pm

Join other readers at this hybrid discussion - both in-person and 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 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.

About Oaxaca by Bricia Lopez

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

About Six Seasons: New Ways with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden

Join other readers at this hybrid discussion - both in-person and on Zoom of Kiese Laymon's Heavy

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

About This Month's Book, Kiese Laymon's Heavy:

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 – 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.