Tales You Can Taste is a book club for foodies. Books discussed either have a food theme or feature a different culture with a unique cusine of its own. It is held once a month at Martin's Supermarket in Stevensville on the upper floor of its Side Door Deli Cafe. Book are available first at the previous month meeting, then at the library's front desk the next day.

At 7:15 p.m., if you would like to take your experience with the book one step further, Martin's offers an optional companion food demonstration/meal for a $20 fee. The food and recipes are inspired by that month's book selection. Those interested in attending it should contact Martin's to register.

This month's selection is Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bin Ninh Nguyen.

As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than her Buddhist grandmother's traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled "delicacies" of mainstream America capture her imagination.