Novels
How to Cook a Tart
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A dark, wildly funny, and deeply imaginative first novel about the pleasures of food and the perils of marriage. Cookbook author Jasmine March's life is like a perfectly prepared béchamel-rich, satisfying, and drenched in butter.
Alice, Let's Eat
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New Edition! Calvin Trillin's hilarious odyssey in search of something decent to eat is sheer joy. Not a cookbook.
Love and Meatballs : A Novel
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For Jo Cerbone, being a good daughter means working at the family restaurant alongside her meddlesome brothers, her opinionated sister, and her larger-than-life parents.
Food of Love : A Novel
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The success of Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat (not to mention their film adaptations), and films such as Big Night and Babette"™s Feast confirms that fine food and romance are a winning combination.
Girl Cook : A Novel
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New in paper! A hilarious modern romance about one woman's determined quest to have both love and a career, set against the backdrop of New York City's high-powered restaurants.
Pastries
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Sunya is the head baker and owner of Pastries, a warm and comfortable bakery in Seattle, where she transforms her fabulous cakes and tarts into delicious works of art. Her success is put in jeopardy, however, when a chain bakery threatens to open down the street.
Book of Salt : A Novel
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Now in Paper! [He] came to us through an advertisement that I had in desperation put in the newspaper. It began captivatingly for those days: 'Two American ladies wish to hire . . .' It was these lines in The Alice B.
Stanley Park : A Novel
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A love story wrapped in a murder mystery, served up as a laugh-out-loud satire of the trendy urban restaurant scene.
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.
Recipes from the Dump
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Her family shattered by more than one father-figure desertion, Gabby Fulbriten tries to make a life for herself with her mother and siblings while longing to lose weight and find the man of her dreams.