I started and finished The School of Essential Ingredients in 3 days. I quite literally could not put it down and carried it everywhere. It's actually not classified as a teen or kids book, it's meant for adults (my mom's book club read it and I found it on our kitchen table!) but I still really enjoyed it.
Basically, what the book is about is a year of cooking classes at a restaurant called Lillian's, where 8 students learn how to cook, but in a very non-traditional way. Each student has taken the classes for a different reason. Throughout the book (there are 9 chapters not counting the epilogue and prologue) you read one chapter in the perspective of each student and learn the reasons behind their decision to take the classes.
My favorite thing about this book was everything seemed to be described the way one would describe food. Each word or description seemed like I was biting into some new dish; something unknown. The writing style is rich, and usually when a writing style is "rich" I always think of that sort of "Southern-twang" type of writing, but this was nothing like that. I can't think of any other way to describe it than, like I said, it was as if I was eating a really amazing new meal.
I would definitely recommend this book, except that it is an adult book, so not everyone would enjoy it. If anybody else has read it I'd LOVE to know what you thought!
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