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Be a part of this community-wide effort and share your favorite recipes with us! Don’t miss out on possibly seeing your family recipe printed in a published cookbook that’s sold throughout the community!

Deadline is extended to May 25.

Click here to fill out the recipe collection form.

Interview Skills Workshop
Tuesday, May 22 • 1:00-3:00 PM • Cook Park Computer Lab

To register click on the program dates.

By adding even the most basic herbs to your culinary palette, you can make your cooking more interesting, delicious and enjoyable.  Adding herbs also enhances flavors and allows for more healthful cooking.  Learn tips for using herbs in everyday cooking as well as what herbs to use with certain dishes, and how to create herbal vinegars and butters.  Food tasting and herbal goodie bags will also be included for each attendee.  Registration required.

Enjoy this entertaining and interactive demonstration on how mobile devices, both Apple and Android, are improving the way we live.  Learn about all the things these devices can do and learn about the coolest apps that are either free or inexpensive! Registration required.

New Yorker executive editor Dorothy Wickenden has written a captivating book about her grandmother and a friend, who left their affluent East Coast life to "rough it" as teachers in Colorado in 1916. Books for sale will be provided by Lake Forest Book Store.  Registration required.

Popular vegetarian blogger Michael Natkin’s new book, “Herbivoracious’’ introduces a new generation in meatless cooking and vegetarian cookbooks. His recipes are intensely flavored in a way that will appeal to readers with a sophisticated and adventurous global palate, health-conscious in a natural but not preachy manner. Book sales and signing will follow the presentation, courtesy of Lake Forest Bookstore. Registration is required.

Have lunch with Claire Cook, author of nine bestselling novels, including "Must Love Dogs" and her latest, "Wallflower in Bloom."  An optional boxed lunch from Cafe Pyrenees will be provided for $8, which must be paid in advance and in person at either Cook Park or Aspen Drive Library. Lunches may be ordered through June 1st.  Books for sale and signing will be provided by Lake Forest Book Store. Registration required.

Join us for this panel of fantastic Young Adult authors!  Meet Veronica Roth, author of the blockbuster Divergent and its new sequel, Insurgent, along with Aprilynne Pike, creator of the bestselling Wings series. They will be joined by Bethany Griffin, author of Masque of the Red Death, and Elisabeth Norris, with her debut novel Unraveling.  Books for sale and signing will be provided by Lake Forest Book Store. Registration required.

Did you know Cook Library cardholders can check out free passes to many Chicago area museums?

Click here for details

Gifts to the Cook Memorial Public Library District will help the library district reach its goal of Building a Better Future.  Each gift will be recognized with a plaque with the donor name or organization.

Click here to see a list of gifts that can be donated to the library.

Click here to see available trees at Aspen Drive.