CHEF CHEF VS

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 | 5:30PM

Read any good books lately? Join our BHC Book Club –

Our meetings are held the first Monday of each month at 3pm on the Verandah. For details contact Wendy Hansen: hansenwendyj@gmail.com.

Featured Books for June & July

“The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post”

by Allison Pataki

Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you…So begins another evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard – even when deemed American royalty, even while covered in imperial diamonds. Marjorie had an insatiable drive to live and love and to give more than she got. From crawling through Moscow warehouses to rescue the Tsar's treasures to outrunning the Nazis in London, serving the homeless of the Great Depression to entertaining Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars, Marjorie Merriweather Post lived an epic life few could imagine. Not content to stay in her prescribed roles of high-society wife, mother, and hostess, Marjorie dared to demand more, making history in the process. Before turning thirty she amassed millions. But it was her life-force, advocacy, passion, and adventurous spirit that led to her stunning legacy.

Review: Good Reads

Culinary competition comes to Berkeley Hall in our inaugural Chef vs Chef competition on Saturday, June 17 at 5:30pm.

It’s up to you – our member-judged tasting competition will put our chefs’ skills to the test, and its Members’ Choice as we appoint the winner.

Enjoy small plates from our array of culinary strolling stations, along with a complimentary welcome glass of wine. No assigned seating. Mingle, taste, enjoy, and let the judging begin!

$60 adults inclusive of tax & service charge Member Bar

Club Casual | Verandah & Palmetto Room

“Demon Copperhead”

by Barbara Kingsolver

It’s a brave writer who takes on a retelling of Dickens. Yet the American author Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, which transposes this English, quasi-autobiographical Bildungsroman to her home territory of Appalachia, feels in many ways like the book she was born to write.

This powerful reimagining of David Copperfield follows one boy’s struggle to survive amid America’s opioid crisis. Kingsolver’s hero Damon Fields, known as Demon and nicknamed Copperhead for his red hair, is born to a drug-using teenage single mother in a trailer in Lee County, Virginia. After enduring being fostered by the pathologically insolvent McCobbs, Demon finds a home with Coach Winfield and his daughter Agnes. Under Winfield’s tutelage he becomes a rising school football star until an injury nudges his recreational drug habit into full-blown opioid addiction. David’s struggle to find purpose in life becomes Demon’s battle to achieve sobriety and transcend the failure of those around him “to see the worth of boys like me, beyond what work can be wrung out of us - Farm field, battlefield, football field.”

Review: The Guardian