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2008
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English
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Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husband's estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last...
2) Heartburn
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English
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Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark,...
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In between hunting for bargains, she's hunting for a killer . . . "This funny and quick-paced series keeps getting better." —RT Book Reviews
Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is . . . well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town, she's thrilled—especially when her competition is nasty nurse...
Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is . . . well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town, she's thrilled—especially when her competition is nasty nurse...
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"Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn't know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There's no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"While on their honeymoon in Scotland, Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow and police detective Nathan Bransford investigate when a man falls from the famous Falkirk Wheel, in the eleventh novel of the series following The Key Lime Crime"--
Food critic Hayley Snow and her groom, police detective Nathan Bransford, thought Scotland was the ideal destination for two newlyweds.... but they are sharing their trip with Nathan's crotchety mother, his sister,...
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2014.
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English
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"Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made to order chocolates from plus sized, plus mouthed chocolatier Bessie Winthrop. But when Bessie is found dead in her kitchen, only Hayley suspects that Bessies "heart attack" might actually be a candy coated murder. Turns out Bessie had more enemies than a boxful of chocolates, each one a suspicious flavour. Its sticky business juggling a job,...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Author of the internationally famous blog, Orangette, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined.
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2023.
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English
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"A former chef gets mixed up in murder when she moves back to her Southern home town in the first Tiffany Austin food blogger mystery - a culinary cozy that will make your brain work and your stomach rumble! Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin has the best job in the world: she gets to eat for a living. At least, she hopes she has a job. Her trial period at Southern Style magazine is up - and rumors are swirling that management are making a choice...
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[2019]
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English
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When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became...
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2022.
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English
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"This novel, written in the form of a memoir, follows the members of a search committee as they seek a new pastor for their church congregation. The narrator is a restaurant-review writer; meals at local restaurants and in committee members' homes occur in the course of the story. Recipes for twenty-five of the dishes are included"--
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist...
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English
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria—a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.
Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer
...18) Best served hot
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship in this foodie romantic comedy. By day, Julie Zimmerman works as an executive assistant. After hours, she's @JulieZeeEatsNYC, a social media restaurant reviewer with over fifty thousand followers. As much as she loves her self-employed side gig, what Julie really wants is to be a critic at a major newspaper, like the New York Scroll. The only thing worse than...
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Cape Cod foodie mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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When she stumbles over the lifeless body of the town's Santa Claus, professional foodie Samantha Barnes finds her plans for Christmas Eve getting complicated as she contends with her guests while trying to nab a killer.
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2021.
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English
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"In a touching and funny memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's tells how he became one of Paris's most influential restaurant critics"--
Until Lobrano landed a job in the Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, he had no experience of French cuisine. As he began to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, his landlady provided him with a lasting touchstone...
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