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The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected to attend this exclusive and cherished event. Interweaving the stories of seven individuals, lives will be forever changed on the eve of one such White Dinner; a night that will lead to new friendships, new...
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English
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At one point or another, we've all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we'd like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation...
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The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals: academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal-reading lawyers, steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. Tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden. Up and down the table unions are formed and dissolve. In the surrounding forest, mischief will lead to...
4) The ruins
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...
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Series
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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English
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At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles's story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing...
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Christmas hope series volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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...
12) Scam chowder
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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313 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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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.
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English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"When Alex Kanin's pointed editorial goes viral and inadvertently destroys Denver chef Rachel Bishop's career, he agrees to help rebuild her tarnished image by offering his connections and his home to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party targeted to Denver's most influential citizens. As they work together to make the project a success, feelings change"--
15) Final fondue
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Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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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...
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Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
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English
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"Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by. The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alain Bonnard, the owner of a small art cinema in Paris, is a dyed-in-the-wool nostalgic ... He wants to show films that create dreams, and he likes most of the people that come to his cinema. Particularly the enchanting, shy woman in the red coat who turns up every Wednesday in row 17 ... One evening, Alain plucks up courage and invites the unknown beauty to dinner. The most tender of love stories is just getting under way when something incredible...
18) Death dines in
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An assortment of culinary mystery tales features such works as "License to Koi" by Carole Nelson Douglas, Parnell Hall's "Lethal Luncheon, " Lyn Hamilton's "Start Terror at Tea-Time, " and other stories by notable mystery writers.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stories from the Kitchen is a one-of-a-kind anthology of classic tales showcasing the culinary arts, from across the centuries and around the world. Here is a mouthwatering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a range of masters of fiction--from Dickens and Chekhov to Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Shirley Jackson to Jim Crace and Amy Tan. These richly varied selections offer tastes as decadent as caviar and as humble as cherry...
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