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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend relationship collapses, Hannah Sugarman seizes the chance to do what she's always loved and launches an underground supper club out of her new landlord's town house. Though her delicious dishes become the talk of the town, Hannah faces various romantic prospects that leave her guessing and confused, parents who don't support cooking as a career, and her own fears of taking a risk and charting her own path.
Author
Series
Katie Jordan books volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
c2011, 2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her perfectionist classmate and neighbor plans an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, Katie begins to wonder if the relaxed day she, her father, and her messy little brother usually enjoy means they are not a "real" family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017
One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads
“How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air
Six “mouthwatering” (Eater.com)...
One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads
“How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air
Six “mouthwatering” (Eater.com)...
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he is invited to five Thanksgiving dinners, Turkey accepts all of his friends invitations, but wonders if he has room in his stomach for all that food.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Tucker smells a familiar scent in the air, he knows his favorite day of the year has come -- Thanksgiving! Tucker loves to play with his family, help clean up, and most of all, enjoy a delicious feast. But as the day goes by, Tucker and his doggy cousins haven't had even a bite. Will they ever get to gobble up any holiday treats? --
86) The perfect host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A criminal at large cons his way into being a guest at a dinner party, and soon finds out that the host is not who he appears to be.
87) Final fondue
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Val Deniston certainly has her plate full running a café, dabbling with recipes, and helping her grandfather prepare for the town's upcoming tri-centennial celebration, but she's grown fond of her new life in the Chesapeake Bay town of Bayport. . . So when Val is asked to reclaim her old position as a cookbook publicist in New York City, she puts off her decision in order to help her grandfather perfect his chocolate fondue for the weekend festivity's...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The pleasures of food lie mostly in the mind, not in the mouth. Get that straight and you can start to understand what really makes food enjoyable, stimulating, and, most important, memorable. Spence reveals in amusing detail the importance of all the "off the plate" elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the color of the plate, the background music, and much more. Whether we're dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the...
Author
Series
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.
92) The trip
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Steve is asked by the Observer to critique the country's finest restaurants, the only person able to accompany him is his annoying best friend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A circle of chefs gather to outscare each other with terrifying tales of fear and food from around the world as they play Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, the game of 100 Candles&and pray they survive the night. Cooked up by the late bestselling author and veteran chef Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential, host of Emmy Award-winning TV show Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (Kill Kill Faster Faster), back together from their New York Times...
Author
Series
Christmas hope series volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother's recipes she had given to Joan when she and John married. In June 2012, Lauren Mabrey discovers she's pregnant. Gloria, Miriam, and the rest of her friends at Glory's Place begin...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
98) Scam chowder
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Val Deniston loves the historic Chesapeake Bay town where she lives with her grandfather, the Codger Cook. Running the fitness club s Cool Down Cafe and salvaging the five ingredient dishes Granddad messes up keeps her busy. She s used to his catastrophes in the kitchen, but not in the dining room Especially when one of his dinner party guests winds up face down in the chowder. The demised diner apparently scammed Granddad s best buddy, and since...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Miles Garth locks himself in an upstairs room during a dinner party and communicates only through notes slipped under the door, his involuntary hosts beg help from childhood friend Anna, who is unwittingly thrust into the family's surreal world.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
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