Volume 2, Issue 1 SYOSSET PUBLIC LIBRARY 225 South Oyster Bay Road, Syosset NY 11791 June 2013

Inside This Issue: The Book Club Insider Explore the Monthly Newsletter Art World With Your Book Club Explore the Art World with your Book Club

Looking Ahead for Looking for a fun and educational outing with your book club? Now that the warm Your Next Pick: Why weather has arrived, try planning a trip to a museum with your book group. Your Not a Cookbook? group could choose one of the following titles as a summer selection and then visit a museum** to view the particular artist/painters work up close and personal. New to FRANK Book Club in a Bag Loving Frank by Nancy Horan by T.C. Boyle Death in a Prairie House: and the Murders by William R. Drennan To register your book club The Guggenheim Museum is currently showing and receive this newsletter straight into your inbox, “A Long Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright’s contact any Usonian House & Pavilion” until September 13, 2013.** Readers’ Services Librarian

Upcoming Events VINCENT VAN GOGH Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick For Readers The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman Afternoon Book Club MOMA has an ongoing exhibit of select will discuss The Killer paintings by Van Gogh** Angels by Michael Shaara on Tuesday, VERMEER June 25 at 1:30 PM. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Beach Reads Evening Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland RENOIR Title Swap Join us for Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland a special evening Ti- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tle Swap. Librarians ongoing exhibits of both Vermeer and Patrons share and Renoir’s paintings. favorite titles. Wednesday, June 26 at 7 PM. Two additional noteworthy selections regarding art and artists are: Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex www.syossetlibrary.org **Syosset Public Library has museum passes available for Syosset Residents to reserve. Please visit www.syossetlibrary.org or contact the Readers’ Services desk at 921-7161 ext. 239 for more information regarding SPL’s Museum Pass Program. -Lisa Jones, Readers’ Services Librarian

The Book Club Insider June 2013 Page 2 Looking Ahead for Your Next Pick: Why Not a Cookbook?

We’ve all heard suggestions about pairing the books you read for your group with foods you can enjoy during your discussions. How about choosing a cookbook as the book for one of your meetings? Members can agree to try one or two recipes during the month and report back on how the dishes turned out. Discussion could cover the usefulness of the chosen cookbook, if the directions were clear, if there were pictures, if anything new was learned and so on. Each member might agree to bring a sample of a successful dish for everyone else to try. But which cookbook?

Here are some suggestions for a Cookbook Book discussion:

Is there a certain cuisine or the recipes of a certain chef that your members have always wanted to try:  Mastering the Art of French Cooking—Julia Child  Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy—Lidia Bastianich  The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook—Ina Garten Maybe your members are not comfortable in the kitchen and would like to learn to cook with more confidence:  How to Cook Everything—Mark Bittman  The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook– Editors of Cooks Illustrated  Joy of Cooking—Irma S. Rombauer Or members would like to drop a few pounds and learn to cook foods that would help with that goal:  Weight Watchers All-Time Favorites—Weight Watchers International  The Best Life Diet Cookbook—Bob Greene  The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook—Nancy Harmon Jenkins Or maybe every one would like to try baking a dessert or two:  Baking Illustrated—Editors of Cooks Illustrated  Baking Handbook—Martha Stewart  Baking with the Cake Boss—Buddy Valastro

Let Readers’ Services help to make your cookbook discussion possible. We can obtain enough copies of all of the cookbooks mentioned here, as well as many others. If this idea sounds appetizing (pun intended!) to you and your group please do not hesitate to discuss it with us next time you visit the library or just give us a call! - Sonia Grgas, Readers’ Services Librarian

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