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61) Delicious!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With no pumpkins to be had for their favorite soup, Cat and Squirrel, with reluctant help from Duck, make other kinds of delicious soups but fussy Duck proves very difficult to please.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 7
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hank's cousin Judith Ann is an excellent cook, and does not let Hank forget it, but when Hank enters a cooking competition with her he finds out that she has trouble in school, just like Hank.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's county, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu--murder!
Author
Publisher
Templar Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their café fails, Jack takes his mother's last few pennies and exchanges them for a can of magic baked beans that then lead Jack on a journey to a giant who is bored with counting his fortune.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 58
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"My cousin Trap was entering the Super Chef Contest, which determines the best cook on Mouse Island--and he was bringing me along as an assistant. Slimy Swiss cheese, I don't know the first thing about cooking fancy dishes--and I didn't think Trap did, either"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ever After High is a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, and student Ginger Breadhouse, daughter of the Candy Witch, studies all the usual magic subjects--but what she is mostly interested in is making her cooking show, Spells Kitchen, a success by introducing happiness as the secret ingredient.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
English
Description
Only the best people go to Hubbard House to die". So Faith Sibley Fairchild, gourmet caterer-turned-amateur sleuth, is told as she begins to investigate some mysterious doings at a retirement community near the village of Aleford, Massachusetts, where her husband is the local minister. And die they do--in Faith's bouillon, even in her bed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preparing for an important state dinner, White House executive chef Olivia Paras discovers that the President's life is in danger, while her fiancé discovers that his friend's murder is linked to the recent death of the secretary of defense.
71) The celebration
Author
Series
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister who were orphaned when their parents died in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi decides to hold a series of cooking classes for kids. But the kids are always accompanied by an adult, each of whom has troubles and worries of their own. Will hearts be healed over plates of Amish food?
Author
Series
Country cooking school mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Betts and Gram agree to help their friend Jake at Broken Rope's Historical Society by accommodating some foodie tourists for the night and occupying them with cooking lessons. It couldn't be worse timing when the pair encounter the ax-wielding ghost of Sally Swarthmore, one of Broken Rope's legendary murderers, who pleads with Betts to help find her diary--a diary that could prove that Sally was really a victim, not a villain"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The day before Christmas, everyone in Jose's neighborhood seems grumpy, including his mother who is homesick for Puerto Rico, but when he and his parents return from the pizzeria where they borrowed an oven to cook their roast, the heavenly aroma reminds those they pass of all they have to celebrate.
77) Gone for gouda
Author
Series
Cheese shop mysteries (Korina Moss) volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yarrow Glen's newest cheese shop, Curds & Whey, has a lot on its plate, but cheesemonger Willa Bauer relishes a challenge. The French-inspired cheese shop is playing host to celebrity vegan chef Phoebe Winston. But when photos surface that prove this vegan influencer is a carnivore, Phoebe is murdered. Willa's employee, the affable Archie, was the last one to see Phoebe alive and the first person the police suspect. To clear his name Willa must uncover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
While Quill takes care of business at the Hemlock Falls Inn, her sister Meg runs the inn's kitchen. During the annual History Days festival, a mock witch stoning takes a grisly turn when a guest at the inn is substituted for the fake witch.
79) Hail to the chef
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Ladys nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. Shell have to watch her backand find a killer unlikely to be pardoned.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Esta deliciosa receta en forma de poema nos enseña todos, jóvenes y adultos, cómo hacer una reconfortante y consistente sopa de frijoles."-- cover page 4.
"This delightful recipe-poem shows us all, young and old, how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling bean soup."-- cover page 4.
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