Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

The Cook Of Castamar (CA332)

CA – Performing Arts Appreciation

Fernando J. Munez’s 2019 Spanish novel La cocinera de Castamar (The Cook of Castamar) tells the story of an 18th-century romance between a talented cook and a widowed duke. The drama deals effectively with racism, sexual harassment and coercion, sexism, injustice and homophobia — issues that still plague society today. The story, in Upstairs, Downstairs style, includes members of the Spanish nobility and their servants.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Ted Wilks

WILKS, TED — B.S., University of London; Ph.D., University of Manchester. Retired from DuPont after 33 years (12 in organic chemistry, 21 in information science). Program annotator, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra since 2000. Previous annotator, Delaware Symphony Orchestra (32 years). (CA252, CA332, CA333, CA334)

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