Join us for our book club meeting to discuss the book The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.  To find out more information, please contact Kathleen Albani at katonthyme@gmail.com. 

Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhood?American and Jordanian?while helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of her impractical, displaced immigrant father who, like many an immigrant before him, cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection on to his children. The Language of Baklava irresistably invites us to sit down at the table with Diana’s family, sharing unforgettable meals that turn out to be as much about grace, difference, faith, love as they are about food.