March 2014

Linda, Jan, Kay, Karen, Pat, Sandie and Ann met at Karen’s home and she served a delicious meal of Calypso Chicken and green salad with corn bread. Ann provided a wonderful flour-less chocolate tort from Trader Joe’s. Books discussed at the meeting (Member who read or suggested): Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific…

February 2014

Wine and Words Minutes from February 25, 2014 The meeting was held at Cindy’s. We discussed the book The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman.   We enjoyed the book and the characters.  The book is set in Rome and tells a story about the people working at an English language newspaper. Reading the book is like assembling…

January 2014

The 1/29/14 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jan’s home. Jan served a hearty Chicken Noodle Soup. green salad and delicious home-made rolls Jan, Karen, Ann, Kay, Linda and Sandie were present. Linda served a delectable chocolate cheese cake and shared her funny story about making three attempts to make and…

October 2013

The October meeting of the Wine and Words Book Club was held at Pats, who served a fennel root and orange salad with a delicious white chili and chicken soup. The white chili recipe is posted on the recipe section. Ann, Karen, Cindy, Linda, Jan, Sandie and Pat were present. We discussed the book Beautiful Ruins,…

September 2013

The September meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held on September 24th at Linda’s home. She served a delicious pear and grape green salad with Mexican corn and bean soup. Sandie provided strawberry pie for dessert. We gave a toast to our dear friend, Kathy, who passed away in June. We recalled memorable…

Watermelon Margaritas at Kaye’s

Some of the gals got together for watermelon margaritas and appetizers at Kay’s. We enjoyed Kaye’s garden, wore hats, ate some delectable humus and bruschetta  and toasted our good friend, Kathy, who passed away on June 24, from breast cancer. We all had attended a lovely Celebration of Life on July 19 at Lairmont Manor. Sandie has…

June 2013

Our June meeting was held at Sandie’s new summer home at Neptune Beach. Pat, Karen, Cindy, Linda, Jan and Sandie attended the meeting. We discussed the book for May, The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Linda was disturbed by the fact that the author was a caretaker of children for the foster care system…

April 2013 (minutes from Kathy)

This report of the April Wine and Words Book Club meeting was sent to Sandie in an email while Sandie and Linda were on their Panama Canal cruise. “You and Linda missed a delightful Book Club party last night with all in attendance except the two of you. Lou finished his pizza cooker last week, tried…

March 2013

The March 26, 2013 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was at Karen’s and Cindy, Kathy, Sandie and Ann were also present. Karen served us a light meal of soup and green salad made with a dressing of olive oil and grape must Sangiovese available at Williams Sonoma. It was delicious. The book for…

February 2013

The meeting was held at Jan’s and she served a fruit salad and seafood soup made with a “cheater’s broth”. The recipe is posted on the recipe page of this site. Linda made a delicious chocolate mouse cake for dessert. Jan, Ann, Kathy, Cindy, Karen, Linda and Sandie attended the meeting and Pat could only…