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Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
With summer in bloom and tourists afoot, Allie is out walking her pup, Mal, when the curious canine digs up a bone from under a flowering lilac bush. The bone leads to a toe that's missing a body. For the successful confectionaire it's only the first in a series of sour events in the middle of the island's Lilac Fest. When her stint on a cooking reality show swirls up a trail of foul play, Allie will have to outwit a cunning killer if she wants to...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake, Ohio. Her latest order, a plate of motivational desserts for an artists retreat, is just what she needs to keep her mind off her own relationship woes. But Winnie s problems seem like trifles when she discovers the body of retreat owner Sally Dearfield mere inches away from five oh-so-eccentric and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
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English
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When Olivia Rawlings, Boston pastry chef extraordinaire, sets not only her flambé dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to Vermont stay with her best friend, Hannah, who lives in a town famous for Bag Balm and contra dancing. Since her previous post at the exclusive Boston club has probably also gone up in smoke, Olivia gratefully accepts a job at the Sugar Maple Inn, not realizing at first that she's been hired to help the cantankerous...
Author
Series
Skinny Bitch novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Skinny Bitch in Love follows the vegan chef's efforts to run her restaurant while planning her wedding, an effort that is challenged by her future mother-in-law's fancy tastes, her fiancé's distant behavior and her best friend's engagement to a nightmarish reality star.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell Valenti is offered a chance to move to Tuscany to help transform an aging villa into a farm-to-table cooking school, she eagerly accepts. After all, both her job and her love life in America have been feeling stale. Plus, she'll get the chance to work under the acclaimed Italian Chef Claudio Orlandini. But Nell gets more than she bargained for when she arrives. With only a day to go until the launch dinner for the cooking school, the villa...
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
Description
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
88) Italian iced
Author
Series
Ethnic eats mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Laurel Inwood features Italian cuisine on the Terminal at the Tracks menu, she knows she'll need to stock the shelves, the fridge, and the freezer with plenty of wonderful delicacies. She just never expected one of them to be her former employer, Hollywood superstar Megan Cohan. And one day, when Laurel is at the the restaurant early to get ready for the regular rush of customers, that's exactly what she finds - Meghan dead in the Terminal freezer....
Author
Series
Skinny Bitch novels volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Cooper is an ambitious 26-year-old sous-chef at a hot vegan restaurant in Santa Monica. Clementine has worked hard for her position and earned a promotion over a backstabbing fellow line-cook, but when an important food critic visits the restauarant, Clementine's rival sabotages her vegan cooking by adding butter to the recipe. When Clementine finds herself fired and blackballed in L.A., she decides to use the personal low as a chance...
90) Maybe we will
Author
Series
Silver Harbor volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When chef Abby de Messiéres returns to Silver Island with her sister to get their late mother's affairs in order, she expected to inherit her mother's bistro along with their childhood home, not to discover a half sister they never knew existed, and a handsome vacationer camped out on her mother's patio. Workaholic Aiden Aldridge has been sent to Silver Island on a work-free vacation, armed with a "Let Loose list," and ordered to get a life by the...
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English
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Halia Watkins has her hands full cooking, hosting, and keeping her boisterous young cousin from getting too sassy with the customers at Mahalia's Sweet Tea, the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. Having fast-talking entrepreneur Marcus Rand turn up in her kitchen is annoying; finding his dead body face-down on her ceramic tile after hours is far worse. To keep Sweet Tea out of the sordid spotlight, Halia will have to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits...
94) Foreign éclairs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is targeted by the brother of a terrorist she helped take down, and his allies, and a White House staff member is killed, Ollie Paras is recruited to participate in a bold strategy to stop the terrorists.
Author
Series
Cake therapist volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Cake Therapist returns with another sweet and emotional tale featuring Neely, the baker with a knack for finding exactly the right flavor for any occasion... A crisp tang of citrus that is at once poignant and familiar, sharpening the senses and opening the mind to possibilities once known and long forgotten... Claire "Neely" Davis is no ordinary pastry chef. Her flavor combinations aren't just a product of a well-honed palate:...
Author
Series
Chapel Springs romances volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Living side-by-side, a fledgling chef and a big-hearted contractor find a delicious attraction. Trouble is, their chemistry could spoil their dreams. Spirited PJ McKinley has the touch when it comes to food. Her dream of opening her own restaurant is just one building short of reality. So when a Chapel Springs resident offers her beloved ancestral home to the applicant with the best plan for the house, PJ believes it's a contest she was meant to...
Author
Publisher
Duo Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Julia Child knew how to have fun, and she also knew how to whip up a delightful meal. After traveling around the world working for the U.S. government, Julia found her calling in the kitchen and devoted her life to learning, perfecting, and sharing the art of French cuisine. This ... biography is a portrait of the remarkable woman, author, and TV personality who captured our hearts with her sparkling personality. 'Bon appétit!'"--Provided by publisher....
100) Irish stewed
Author
Series
Ethnic eats mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After flopping as a personal chef to a Hollywood movie star, jobless Laurel Inwood finds herself humbled in Hubbard, Ohio, helping her aunt.
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