Dinner with a Book à la française Returns!
Our popular French-themed dinner discussions at Spring Mill Café continue this fall with two dinners to celebrate Paris. Co-hosted by Spring Mill’s famed chef Michele Haines and book discussion leader Lynn Rosen, our theme will be: “Paris Je T’aime (et je te cherche).” We will seek the real Paris as we discuss two books on two separate evenings. Join one event or both!
Dinner #1
DATE: Wednesday, November 2
TIME: 7PM – 9PM
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Hemingway captures the essence of a Paris long gone, one inhabited by writers and intellectuals, many of them American ex-pats, who worked hard and drank hard, and lived a life that now lives on only in legend. We’ll explore the famous stories in this revelatory book as we dine on delicious Parisian-inspired cuisine.
COST:
Dinner + discussion: $65
Dinner + discussion + a copy of the book: $80
Sign up HERE.
Dinner #2
DATE: Tuesday, December 6
TIME: 7PM – 9PM
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnick
In 1995, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys–both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
COST:
Dinner + discussion: $65
Dinner + discussion + a copy of the book: $80
Sign up HERE.
PLACE: Both events take place at Spring Mill Café, 164 Barren Hill Road, Conshohocken, PA 19428
Sign up HERE.
MENU: Très délicieux!
premier cours
Oysters on the half Shell with Chablis Mignonette
or
Salad Verte
Entrée Choice
Poulet de Bresse
(Free Range chicken with fresh tarragon, shallots, and Mushroom)
or
Trout Fillet with Sorrel Cream
Dessert
Tart tatin with Hadley
(Classic Tart Tatin served warm with vanilla ice cream)
