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• The School of Essential Ingredients

  Bauermeister, Erica

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  Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

  Bender, Aimee

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  Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

• Home Cooking

  a Writer in the Kitchen

  Colwin, Laurie

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  A unique feast for body and soul, "Home Cooking" shares the delightful pleasures of discovering cooking and eating good, simple food. Colwin combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful food in such…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Plate Special

  An Autobiography of My Appetites

  Christensen, Kate, 1962-

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  Builds on the author's popular food-centric blog to recount her unconventional upbringing and her unusually happy and occasionally sorrowful life of literary and culinary sensuality.

• An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

  David, Elizabeth, 1913-1992

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  Contains delightful explorations of food and cooking, among which are the collection's namesake essay and many other gems; with black-and-white photographs and illustrations.

• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

  a Novel

  Dev, Sonali,

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  Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco.

• Death Comes in Through the Kitchen

  a Havana Mystery

  Dovalpage, Teresa, 1966-

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  Winner of Spain's Rincón de la Victoria Award and the author of both fiction and plays, Cuban-born, New Mexico-based Dovalpage offers a literary mystery set in 2003 Havana. It opens with San Diego journalist Matt arriving in town to marry Yarmila,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil's Food Cake Murder

  Fluke, Joanne, 1943-

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  Popular baker Hannah Swensen (Apple Turnover Murder) can hardly keep up with all her orders, but she finds the time to probe the murder of a new minister.

• Chocolat

  Harris, Joanne, 1964-

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  A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blue Bistro

  Hilderbrand, Elin

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  Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast money. When the desirable Thatcher…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

  Miller, Louise,

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  Olivia Rawlings is a Boston-based pastry chef, who leaves Boston and seeks comfort in Guthrie, VT, settling down with peppy dog Salty when she's offered a job at the Sugar Maple Inn and falling for Martin McCracken, home to tend his ailing father.

• The Hundred-foot Journey

  Morais, Richard C., 1960-

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  The story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai, who ends up opening a restaurant in a quiet French village thus triggering a culinary war with the fancy haute cuisine place opposite.

• Tender at the Bone

  Growing Up at the Table

  Reichl, Ruth

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  New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl understands the importance and significance of storytelling. Her memoir covers her early life, combining dozens of anecdotes with an occasional recipe.

• Sourdough

  Sloan, Robin, 1979-

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  Software engineer Lois Clary codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. When the brothers have Visa issues, they have one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lager Queen of Minnesota

  Stradal, J. Ryan,

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  Once upon a time, Helen Blotz inherited the family farm, alienating sister Edith, but Helen uses the proceeds to transform her husbands' family soda business into the hottest brewery in Minnesota. Even as Ediths' granddaughter Diana launches her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation