“Wicked Little Letters" | Wednesday, September 25
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, townspeople begin receiving anonymous profane and shocking letters, but who can the author be? Our dinner will feature wicked little dishes from Littlehampton, England —spicy pumpkin soup and mini corn muffins, beef pasties, mashed potatoes, minted peas and goat cheese, soda bread, and for dessert blackberry apple pie and ice cream. Discretion advised.
“Can you Ever Forgive Me?" | Monday, October 21
Another true story--Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors. Our dinner will make use of Israel's favorite ingredients—roasted beet salad with champagne vinaigrette, bourbon glazed pork tenderloin with pineapple relish, maple glazed bourbon green beans, brandied butternut squash, rum pumpkin bread, and apple brandy cheesecake. The language in this film is also pretty inebriated.
“American Fiction" | Wednesday, November 20
Nominated for five Oscars, this film confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. Since the film is set in Boston, we will enjoy traditional clam chowder, Yankee pot roast with gravy, red potatoes, and baby carrots, spinach and pear salad, Boston brown bread, and Boston cream pie.
“The Holdovers" | Thursday, December 12
Also nominated for five Oscars, this film is set in a 1970 New England boarding school where a curmudgeonly instructor/frustrated writer must remain on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. Our traditional New England Christmas dinner will include winter vegetable salad with honey vinaigrette, cheese straws, spiral glazed ham, asparagus, corn pudding, yams, cranberry sauce, butter rolls, dark chocolate walnut tart, and Christmas cookies.
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