What's Cooking at Stratford Library?

For our next Sunday Afternoon talk we will host Chef Claire Criscuolo, owner/operator of New Haven's legendary vegetarian restaurant, Claire's Corner Copia. Stop in on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m.

Claire Criscuolo graduated from the University of Bridgeport and is a registered nurse. Her love of wholesome foods, along with her desire to create exciting, healthful, home-cooked meals led her to the restaurant business only months after graduating from college.

Armed with the recipes she culled from a family of marvelous cooks she and her husband Frank founded Claire's Corner Copia in 1975. Now, in its thirty- eighth year, this vegetarian restaurant continues to thrive at its original location across from Yale University and the historic Green in New Haven, Connecticut.

Over the years Claire's Corner Copia has received numerous, glowing reviews published both locally and nationally, including a review by the New York Times. While continuing to win awards, Claire's Corner Copia is listed as one of only two restaurants in New Haven "Not to be missed" in the Yankee Magazine Guide to Travel in New England.

In 2005, she opened Basta Trattoria, (next door to Claire's Corner Copia) a Sustainable and Organic restaurant specializing in fish and seafood, prepared and served in the classic Italian tradition. She is the author of four cookbooks including her latest, "Welcome to Claire's" which will be available for purchase at the library
program.

For further information call the library'ss Public Relations and Programming Office at 203.385.4162 or visit: www.stratfordlibrary.org.