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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina's gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have...
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When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became...
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Hayley Powell food & cocktail mysteries volume 13
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 13
Hayley Powell food and cocktail mysteries volume 13
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 13
Hayley Powell food and cocktail mysteries volume 13
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Bar Harbor, Maine, is quieter in the off-season, but the population has just increased a bit with the arrival of Ted and Trudy Lancaster. Ted's taking over for a retiring minister, and Trudy runs a food truck called Wicked 'Wiches. When she stops in at the Island Times office to place an ad, Hayley happily devours the sample sub Trudy offers -- and the two become fast friends. When Trudy tragically dies in her truck while catering a Halloween party,...
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2015.
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English
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"In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chef Lou Johnson works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling restaurant, Luella's, into a success. She cheerfully balances business, friends, and fiance...until fate intervenes. She's just baked her fiance a rich, delectable coconut cake, but when she drops by his apartment with the birthday surprise, she discovers him in the buff--with an intern. Sardonic British transplant Al writes pseudonymous, scathing...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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2017.
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English
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The quaint fishing village of Salmon Cove, Maine, seems like the ideal location for a girls weekend with Hayleys gal pals, Liddy and Mona. Liddys on the rebound from a breakup, but when she meets a handsome tourist, it looks like a little romance might liven things up.Unfortunately, Liddys new sweetheart is found dead on the beach the next morning at the towns Lobster Bake, next to an overturned cooking pot. The liberated lobsters may be scrambling...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn't have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance--"a kind of paradise...
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Hayley Powell food & cocktail mysteries volume 14
Hayley Powell food and cocktail mysteries volume 14
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 14
Hayley Powell food and cocktail mysteries volume 14
Hayley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 14
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Chef Romeo, who just opened up a new restaurant in town, dies from complications after having a heart attack, Hayley Powell, whose hospitalized brother swears it was murder, must find the person who had no reservations about killing the chef.
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Crooked Lane
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2022.
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English
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"Peace and quiet are hard to find in bustling Key West, so Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, is taking the afternoon off for a tranquil lunch with a friend outside of town. As they are enjoying the wild beach and the lunch, she realizes that her husband Nathan's dog, Ziggy, has disappeared. She follows his barking, to find him furiously digging at a shallow grave with a man's body in it. Davis Jager, a local birdwatcher, identifies him...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"While on their honeymoon in Scotland, Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow and police detective Nathan Bransford investigate when a man falls from the famous Falkirk Wheel, in the eleventh novel of the series following The Key Lime Crime"--
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When Hayley's idol, cookbook author and TV personality Penelope Janice, invites her to participate in a Fourth of July celebrity cook-off at her seaside estate in Seal Harbor, Maine, Hayley couldn't be more flattered. She just hopes she can measure up. With a who's who of famous chefs whipping up their signature dishes, this holiday weekend has all the ingredients for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine"--
16) Game of scones
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Sugar and Spice mystery volume 1
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Lyrical Underground
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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As co-owner of Sugar and Spice Cookbooks, Sugar Calloway has seen simple confections bring friends together and spark fiery feuds. Except this time, the recipe truly is to die for. After losing her job as food editor at a glossy magazine, Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway -- aka "Sugar" to friends -- isn't sweet on accepting defeat and crawling back to her gossipy southern hometown. So when she has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business...
17) Vintage: a novel
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A humorous and evocative debut novel about a food journalist's desperate attempt to save his career--and possibly, his marriage--by tracking an extremely valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis over half a century ago"--
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Parker Valentine has always dreamed of opening her own winery in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. But she gets more than she bargained for when a food and wine critic unexpectedly shows up at Vino Valentine on opening day. A negative review could be fatal for her business, and not only does he seem to hate her chardonnay, he also collapses and dies shortly after drinking it.
19) Murder lo mein
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she's been made manager. So when she enters Ho-Lee into Cleveland's Best Noodle Contest, Lana makes it her business to win--at all costs. But when a local food critic receives a threatening note in a fortune cookie and is later found dead, face-down in a bowl of lo mein, all bets are off... Now, along with her sweet-and-sour boyfriend Detective Adam Trudeau, Lana decides...
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Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Stella Park is elated to celebrate her best friend's wedding in the Italian countryside-and maybe she also needs this escape from her personal and her professional life. Writing recipes for a living isn't all it's cooked up to be. But the revelry is short lived when she runs into the ex she hasn't seen since she broke his heart ten years ago, Samuel Gordon. As her past gets propelled to the forefront, Stella tries not to question the choices she...
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