On Baking and Writing: A Talk with Louise Miller

Join pastry chef/author Louise Miller at the Boston Athenæum for a discussion about her writing process and research, as well as a reading from her acclaimed debut novel, A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living. This noon event is free and open to the public.

About A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living:

When Olivia Rawlings—pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club—sets not just her flambéed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of—the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous owner of the Sugar Maple Inn, offers Livvy a job. Miller and her full-hearted story about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home have been praised by the New York Times Book Review: “Miller elevates the story by turning it into a Pinterest fantasy of rural American…[Her] visions of bucolic Vermont landscapes, cinnamon-scented kitchens and small-town friendliness make this reverie of country life an appealing one.”

About Louise Miller:

Louise Miller has been a baker/pastry chef for over twenty years. She started her first baking job in 1994 in Cambridge, MA. Miller hated her first job, gave notice and had vowed never to work in a kitchen again, when on her last day she met her baking mentor, who talked her into staying on by offering to teach her the art of pastry. Miller is currently the pastry chef of the Union Club of Boston. A lifelong lover of reading, Miller began her first attempt at novel writing in 2009. She received a scholarship in 2012 to attend GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program where she worked on the final revisions of her novel, which were made largely in the Athenæum’s fifth-floor reading room.