Library Highlights 10/30/2020
 
National Adoption Month 
     
 
NEED A CAREER CHANGE?
 
 
Want to practice your interview skills?  
Have a professional review your resume?
Streamline your job search?  
 
Every Thursday from 10:45 to 2:00 our career counselor Ann Wright provides 20 minute one-on-one sessions by phone and you pick the topic.
 
Ann Wright is a career coach/trainer with more than 20 years of experience in corporate human resources and career counseling for clients of all levels, with a proven track record of helping people find jobs.Please contact Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian at csilk@fplct.org for an appointment.
 

Dustin Pari
Happy Halloween! 
 
 
Thank you to all who attended our Dustin Pari program
this past Monday.  
From A-Z we learned about all the spooky and weird wonders of  
strange things.
Very entertaining!
 
 



Virtual Event  
Monday Mudras Meditation Sessions with
Jesse Rovero
Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. 
 
 

Join in by Zoom for a virtual Mudras meditation class by Jesse Rovero. Mudras are hand gestures used during meditation
that channel your body's energy flow.

Please sign up with your email address and you will get the Zoom link to join the meeting. If you have any questions please email Mary Coe at mcoe@fplct.org.
 
Register here.     
Virtual Event  
A Different Kind of  
Book Club
Spotlight on Cookbooks 
Monday, November 2
6:30 p.m.


For November, our spotlight will be somewhat different as we focus on cookbooks. Give us an hour and you will leave with 20 great culinary titles for gift giving this holiday season or to add to your home collection.

Each of our special guests guides us through their favorite cook and baking books.

Our Culinary Presenters:

Tom Quinn has been a professional baker for 8 years. Born and raised in Fairfield he attended Johnson & Wales University and graduated with an associates in baking and a bachelors in food management. Tom worked as a baker for several Connecticut bakeries including as the Sous Chef at Huckleberries Artisan Pastries. He is now a baker and the coffee manager for the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington DE.

Mark Owen has been a home cook for 40 years. For many years he did editorial food work (food styling) for Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, Real Simple, Food and Wine, Oprah and many more. In addition he did prep work in the kitchens of the Food Network for Bobby Flay and Paula Dean. Mark also wrote a food blog for 10 years called Urbanfoodguy about life, cooking and travel.

 

Virtual Event  
Tech Help  
Spotlight on Kanopy
Thursday, November 5      
11:00 a.m.


This week we explore Kanopy, our digital resource for streaming movies. Discover classics, indies, documentaries, and so much more. Please register so we can send you the link the day before the program

Tech Help is a weekly exploration of another digital service offered free to Fairfield residents. You will leave knowing how to borrow or access one of our digital resources.
 

Virtual Event  
Monthly Book Club
House on Endless Waters  
by Emuna Elon
Thursday, November 5
2:00 p.m.

Please join us by Zoom for our virtual
Book Club. We will be discussing
House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon.

Please sign up with your email address
and you will get the Zoom link to join the meeting.


If you have any questions please email Claudia Silk at csilk@fplct.org. Looking forward to "seeing you".
 

Virtual Event  
What's Cooking Series -  
Gruel Britannia
Monday, November 9
6:30 p.m.
 
 
 

Join us as Chef Karen Hubrich of Gruel Britannia demonstrates how to make her best-selling Sticky Toffee Pudding.  This classic English dessert is amazingly easy to make, simple to serve and is delicious!  It even freezes well and the toffee sauce will last a long time in the refrigerator.

Pick up an ingredient kit to follow along at home and enjoy this fantastic dessert that night. Please call ahead to preorder and arrange for pick up on Friday, 11/6 or Saturday, 11/7. The $25 kit will be available from
Gruel Britannia,  2217 Post Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824, 203-292-6466, and will contain everything you need including the toffee sauce and muffin tins. All you will need is some vanilla ice cream to top off the pudding!

We will hear about Chef Karen's unique background and the story of Gruel Britannia in Fairfield, a unique restaurant and provisions store specializing in all things British.

PLEASE REGISTER TO HAVE THE ZOOM LINK EMAILED TO YOU THE DAY OF THE EVENT.

**What's Cooking Series - A series featuring local chefs. Guest chefs share the back stories behind their cooking lives, the challenges of running a restaurant/food market and talk about a favorite cookbook or recipe.




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