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Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
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Series
Language
English
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"For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved Peach Diner. Since their mother's passing two years ago, Marygene has been stuck in Atlanta while her sister Jena Lynn has been running the family business. Now Marygene has left her husband and returned to her hometown, where she can almost feel Mama's presence. But all is not peachy back home....
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Four Homes nos invita a degustar varias opciones de la rica cocina de Jordi Cruz. Empezamos con veinte variantes de tapas, entre las que no pueden faltar las patatas bravas con espumoso alioli y salteado picante, o el pulpo al vapor con patatas aliñadas, humo y toques asiáticos, o una tacita de café a la italiana. Más adelante, nos encontramos en Atempo, con su recientemente galardonada estrella Michelin, y allí encontramos las recetas más atemporales,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead--after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's Independence Day in Winter Garden, Virginia, and the residents are gearing up for their annual celebration. The Down South Café is open and flourishing, and Amy Flowers is busy making pies and cakes for the holiday. The only thorn in her side is Chamber of Commerce director George Lincoln, who is trying to buy the café so he can tear it down and build a B&B on the site. When George collapses while eating at the Down South, everybody assumes...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Seamless, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home cooking. Beneath all that growth lurked serious problems. Many of the best restaurants in the world employed unpaid cooks. Meal delivery apps were putting many restaurants...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leaning into the hipster trend of making fresh cocktails, while spotlighting regional mixologists, this is the second of agseries of gifty cookbooks pairing 30 cocktails with 30 delicious recipes, written by a seasoned food writer. This one takes the never-ending trend of pairing tequila cocktails with tacos"--
"Tacos have been trending for years, and finally tequila is having its taco moment. While a crunchy, savory beef taco washed down with a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake."
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Taking a holiday by the sea to eat enough fish and chips to support the struggling business of the aptly named Mrs. Chipper, newlyweds Siobhan and Macdara Flannery instead find the proprietor murdered and place their long-delayed honeymoon on hold to catch a slippery killer"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As summer comes to an end in her Jersey Shore town, Lucy Berberian continues to manage her family's Mediterranean restaurant. The Kebab Kitchen also has a food tent at this year's beach festival. But now a local businessman is under the boardwalk-dead by the sea . . . With a sand castle contest and live music, Ocean Crest bids a bittersweet farewell to tourist season. Summer will return next year . . . but Archie Kincaid won't. The full-of-himself...
Author
Publisher
Rae Katherine Eighmey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With holiday season fast approaching and the Iowa presidential caucus soon to follow, Susan Stewart's fledgling Potluck Paradise Cafe is humming with the creation of new, delicious dishes to please the appetites of her Lake Livonia community. But then, a mysterious note included in a Christmas card from her friend and mentor, Hazel Romer, who skipped town in the middle of a July night, raises important questions. What was the skeleton in Hazel's...
76) Clerks II
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Trixie Matkowski agrees to take over her aunt's diner, she pictures lakeside views and delicious comfort food in the small town where she spent summers as a child. But the sweet scene turns sour when someone puts murder on the menu.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and sumptuous cookbook of innovative recipes and reinvented classics of modern Indian cuisine. Using traditional techniques as jumping-off points, Rasika incorporates local, seasonal ingredients to reinterpret dishes from one of the world's richest and most varied cuisines. Inventive recipes like squash samosas, avocado chaat with banana, eggplant and sweet potato lasagna, and masala chai crème brûlée accompany reimagined classics including...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry s largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"At just twenty-one, the age when most people are starting to drink (well, legally at least), Victoria James became the country's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant... Exhilarating and inspiring, Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from an abusive and traumatic childhood on her own terms; an ethnography of the glittering, high-octane, but notoriously corrosive restaurant industry; and above all, a love letter to...
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