Tastes and Tales from the Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum: Dishes that Inspire Stories that Delight from Michigan's Most Unusual Eatery

Its not often you hear fellow diners playing the tuba while you decide between stir fry and baba ghanoush but this was normal at The Travelers Club International Restaurant and Tuba Museum in Okemos Michigan. Whether you were an out-of-town musician trying one of the vintage tubas or a local stopping by for the third time that week The Travelers Club offered you more than just great food-it gave you something to look forward to.For twenty years The Travelers Club was Jennifer Byroms respite for diners and employees alike where she crafted both her recipes and relationships with care. While its doors are now closed its spirit lives on. In Tastes and Tales from the Travelers Club Jennifer shares the recipes and philosophies that took a tiny hole-in-the-wall on a sleepy street corner to a state-wide treasure. Youll learn how Jennifer makes her famous falafel the ingredients that should always be in your pantry and why the rules of her recipes are meant to be broken. Above all youll see how life was a little brighter-and people were a lot happier-inside the four walls of The Travelers Club.