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81) Pumpkin soup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them."--Publisher description.
82) Inherit the word
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Cookbook Nook is set to host the town's upcoming Grill Fest, a tasty tradition which pits local amateur chefs against one another to concoct the most delicious dishes. This year's challenge: grilled cheese. But with competing chefs bearing grudges from past years, more mouths are running off than savoring the fare. The expression "too many cooks" proves all too true when the eight-time champ is found murdered in the alley behind the café. Soon...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks, making croissants and chocolat chaud, seeking out rare ingredients, all to earn the love of her distracted chef of a mother, who is now packing her off to boarding school. In one last effort to prove herself indispensable, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother's ideal meal, an obscure Middle Eastern dish called masgouf. Victoria, grappling with her husband's death, has been dreaming of...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 8
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Alexis is the clear leader of the Cupcake Club: She's organized, punctual, and happy to take on the stuff like scheduling, budgets, invoicing, and the things that the other girls don't really want to do. In other words, the "unfun" things. But one day Alexis feels particularly unappreciated and informs the Cupcake Club that she is no longer in charge! After deadlines get missed and supplies aren't bought, the girls realize they definitely need a leader....
Author
Series
Goldy Bear mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to take control of her life, Goldy Bear moves her catering business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadows Country Club. Just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and being wooed by both a handsome shrink and a rugged cop--the sightly doctor inexplicably drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Godly is convinced the doctor's death was no accident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As the Wild West Extravaganza rides into Crystal Cove, California, Cookbook Nook store owner Jenna Hart is ready to indulge her appetite for grilled and barbecued treats and maybe even try the Texas skip. But when the body of one of her father's neighbors is found the next morning smoldering in a bonfire, the rodeo revelry is extinguished. Sylvia Gump had acquired plenty of enemies with her practice of illegally encroaching on her neighbors' properties--including...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A driven 17-year-old girl whose family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents turns to a kitchen apprenticeship in Lyon, France, as the only means to bring order back to her life"--
After the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents, Isabella Fields moves in with her dad and his new wife in France. There she feels like an outsider in her father's new life. The upside? Her father's...
88) A deadly feast
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Key West food critic Hayley Snow scents-es something fishy when a customer falls stone-crab cold dead on a seafood tasting tour. Thanksgiving is nearly here, and Key West food critic Hayley Snow has just one more assignment to put to bed for Key Zest magazine before she gets to celebrate with her family and her police officer fiancé, Nathan Bransford. Then, just days later, wedding bells will ring--if death doesn't toll first. The sweet potatoes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Single mum Hayley Powell is barely keeping her leaking roof over her head when her boss at the "Island Times" gives her a new assignment - taking over the paper's food column. Hayley's not sure she has the chops--she's an office manager, not a writer, even if her friends clamor for her mouth-watering potluck dishes. But the extra income is tempting, and Hayley's chatty first column is suddenly on everyone's menu - with one exception. When rival food...
Author
Series
Kitchen witch mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To keep her cooking school and catering business, Mia's Morsels, afloat, Mia's handed off oversight to her boyfriend Trent's mother while she focuses on earning a steady paycheck. Too bad her mean-spirited boss at the lodge keeps the misery flowing as steadily as the money. At least her roommate, Christina, is still dedicated to Mia's Morsels-though she's also distracted, thanks to her clingy mother's constant demands. And the distraction only grows...
91) A table for two
Author
Series
Firefly lake (Sheryl Lister) volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Software developer Gabriel Cunningham is overworked and nearing burnout, so when his sister asks him to temporarily move to Firefly Lake to watch over their grandmother, it seems the perfect-but temporary-solution to his problems. He can take some time off and the change in scenery is just what he needs to get his health on track. And it doesn't hurt that his next-door neighbor is both sexy and a fantastic cook. It's just unfortunate that their first...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the organizing committee for her upcoming high school reunion desperately needs a caterer, Halia agrees to help out. Soon she's serving up her signature macaroni and cheese and famous chicken wings to a host of appreciative ex-classmates. Some folks have blossomed since graduation. Others, like manipulative Raynell Rollins, currently married to a former football star, haven't changed nearly enough. When Raynell is found dead the morning after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon fights to save her reputation and catch a killer when a murder occurs during a fundraising dinner for the local library. Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon has just moved to Hobson Glen and opened a new restaurant and catering business, Cookin' the Books Cafe. So when her new landlord, Schulyer Thompson, recommends her to Binnie Broderick, the executive director of the local library, Tish is delighted. Binnie needs a...
94) The cook
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a documentary. It transcends this simplistic form, however, through...
95) Bomba de humo
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Lena tiene treinta y tantos, miles de inseguridades y su vida está en una eterna crisis. Trabaja en una agencia de publicidad y ve cómo sus días transcurren encerrada en una oficina, yendo a spinning, viendo series e ingiriendo comida precocinada. ¿Es eso lo que quiere para el resto de su vida? Undia sus amigos le organizan una cita a ciegas durante un curso de cocina griega. Al siguiente Lena despierta con una resaca monumental y decide cambiarlo...
Series
Witch hat atelier kitchen volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's not easy running a magical atelier. Between teaching their apprentices and crafting exotic contraptions, witches Qifrey and Olruggio barely have a quiet moment during the day. What better place to unwind than in the kitchen, where the only limit on their imagination is the contents of their pantry? Just a sprinkle of salt here, a dash of pepper there...and the second course is served"--
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation...?"--
98) Supper Club
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Food, friendship and drama. High school is always cooking up something unexpected. Nora, Lili, and Iris are seniors at Seaside High. Their differing schedules and mounting extracurriculars inspire the girls to form a secret club where they can hang without sacrificing their future aspirations. Enter Supper Club, the delicious solution to their problems. When life starts to crumble like a cookie under the girls' feet, they rely on comfort food to...
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Whether morning, noon, or night, at home or away from the atelier, witches Qifrey and Olruggio never fail to bring delicious, healthy meals to the table. Then again, sometimes an indulgent snack is just the thing to get four young apprentices through a magic lesson. Baked Glittersweet? Chasenut pancakes? These sweet delights have oh-so-sweet ends!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Carrie Ann Cole bakes a lemon meringue pie to die for that actually kills someone, she must find out who the real killer is before her time at the Kensington Palace expires. The elegant Orangery at Kensington Palace is the perfect setting for the bridal shower of Carrie Ann Cole's best friend's sister. Personal chef to the royal family, Carrie Ann's pie theme is naturally winning. But a waiter later keels over dead into the lemon meringue pie...
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