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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beloved memoir from the author of Tender at the Bone, “Reichl writes with gusto, and her story has all the ingredients of a modern fairy tale: hard work, weird food, and endless curiosity” (The New Yorker).
“[Comfort Me with Apples] reminds you of a really great meal, well balanced and well seasoned, leaving you satisfied and wanting...
“[Comfort Me with Apples] reminds you of a really great meal, well balanced and well seasoned, leaving you satisfied and wanting...
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Pub. Date
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 Bessie's "heart attack" might actually be a candy coated murder. Turns out Bessie had more enemies than a boxful of chocolates, each one a suspicious flavor. It's sticky business juggling a job,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier, national bestseller Lucy Burdette's eighth Key West Food Critic mystery sees the return of fan-favorite food critic Hayley Snow, who must once again get to the bottom of a bitter murder.
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Food and drink writer and single mom Hayley Powell figures it's up to her to save country music superstar Wade Springer's reputation after Wade's tour bus is burned and a roadie named Mickey Pritchett is found in the remains--shot, and with one of Hayley's trademark chicken legs stuffed in his mouth.
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English
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After an unspeakable tragedy, Ava Collette flees from Boston to a remote village in Maine, and rents an old house named Brodie's Watch. The isolated seaside mansion is peaceful-- until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. One night Ava confronts the apparition of Captain Jeremiah Brodie. He feels all too real, and he welcomes her into his world-- and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she looks forward...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books, created the canon of the American table. Focusing on the figures...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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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Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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xxix, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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At the height of her career, Paddleford was a popular as Julia Child and as respected as James Beard. Today, she's the most important food writer you've never heard of.
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Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
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302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The celebrated journalist, producer, and bestselling author takes us on a culinary journey from Italy to Afghanistan, from Mexico to Massachusetts, a memoir of travel, food, and personal (mis)adventure. In Vietnam, preconceptions collide with the soup; in France, lust flares with the pâté and dies with the dessert; in Bolivia, a very young missionary finds her food flavored with hypocrisy; while at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, an older woman...
13) Chocolate quake
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Series
Carolyn Blue mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
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290 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Carolyn Blue has arrived in San Francisco to sample the Frisco fare for her job as a food writer. She dutifully calls her mother-in-law and finds she's in jail for murder!
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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291 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Lisa Donovan is anyone's definition of a strong woman. She has built several lauded restaurants from the ground up, including Sean Brock's Husk empire; she raised two brilliant children with no money; she is a rape survivor; she is a profoundly talented artist. But from her early childhood, she had been told at every juncture that she wasn't enough: she came from a poor Southern family that despised its own Zuni/Mexican roots and repeatedly silenced...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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393 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Secretly using her place on the church search committee to write a memoir, with recipes, about the experience, restaurant critic, food writer and longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation, Dana Potowski gets some good material until she realizes that she cares deeply about this institution.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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112 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.
17) A deadly feast
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Key West food critic Hayley Snow scents-es something fishy when a customer falls stone-crab cold dead on a seafood tasting tour. Thanksgiving is nearly here, and Key West food critic Hayley Snow has just one more assignment to put to bed for Key Zest magazine before she gets to celebrate with her family and her police officer fiancé, Nathan Bransford. Then, just days later, wedding bells will ring--if death doesn't toll first. The sweet potatoes...
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Series
Carolyn Blue mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
19) Death a l'Orange
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Series
Carolyn Blue mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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xii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"Part memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story- a beautifully told account of China's brilliant cuisines . . . with recipes. "Lucky for me, Taipei was in the midst of transforming itself into a food lover's paradise at the exact time I appeared on the scene." So begins Carolyn Phillips's journey as a language student in 1970s Taiwan that culminated with her becoming a traditional Chinese family's eldest daughter- in- law. Through beguiling stories...
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