The Kelowna Yacht Club’s Book Club is a reading group that reads and discusses the latest novels and old favourites. Every month a new book is selected, based around a topic or theme. The Book Club meets the second Thursday of each month.

Thursday, December 10

7:00 PM | Book Discussion – KYC Boardroom/Zoom

Want to join the Book Club? New members are always welcome! Please contact us here and we will put you in contact with the group.


DECEMBER BOOK:

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no?

This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who, under Reichl’s leadership, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media—the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down.

Complete with recipes, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark, following a passion and holding on to her dreams—even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be.

 

UPCOMING BOOKS:

January: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

 


This event is open to Members. Find out more information on membership here.

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