Mr. Darcy's Dream (26 page)

Make your book club into a seed swap, where you trade seeds and clippings from your own gardens with each other. Or take your book club to visit your local greenhouse or botanical garden. Learn what vegetation grows in your climate, and purchase local plants and delicious produce!

 

Phoebe and Louisa love sharing the exotic pineapples that grow at Pemberley. Celebrate this symbol of hospitality by bringing a pineapple dessert to your book club meeting! Use your own favorite recipe, or try this pineapple upside-down cake: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/PINEAPPLE-UPSIDE-DOWN-CAKE-103088.

 

Phoebe and Stanhope discuss Nicolas Poussin's painting
Apollo and Daphne
at dinner, before the Pemberley ball. View or print an image of
Apollo and Daphne
and discuss it with your book club. You can find it here: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=8231.