Novels
Debt To Pleasure
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John Lanchester's astonishing novel in which an impeccable Englishman relates his (murderous) life story thru the medium of food.
Five Quarters of the Orange
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From the best selling author of Chocolat comes her most accomplished work to date--a sensual literary concoction of tragedy, secrets, and the relationship between a daughter and a mother.
Blackberry Wine
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From the author of the acclaimed Chocolat comes an intoxicating tale of love lost and found, set in a small French village. As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of Jackapple Joe Cox.
Les Liaisons Culinaires
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One woman, two suitors, and seventeen delicious dishes: in Athens seductions starts in the kitchen... Dimitris and Damocles live in the same apartment building, on the same floor. They share a love a cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover"“Nana.
Devil's Larder
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A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire. Food for thought in the best sense of the term, here's a delectable work of fiction from a 2001 winner of the National Book critics Circle Award.
Chasing Cézanne
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With his sixth consecutive best seller, the unflappable Peter Mayle serves up a delectable novel of glamor, amour, haute cuisine, felony, and farce in the South of France and points elsewhere. His ingredients: A devilishly clever art scam.
Passion and Affect
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Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you'll meet:Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz.
Secrets of the Tsil Cafe
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A bittersweet and often funny coming-of-age story set in a cross-cultural and extended family that lives between two kitchens--one traditional, the other New World. Includes recipes.
World of Pies
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New in paperback! The summer of 1961, the year of the pie fair, I was wild for baseball. First-time novelist Karen Stolz has created a cozy, poignant and exquisitely written episodic tale of family, food and love.