Epicurean Fare
Secrets Of The Tsil Café by Thomas
Fox Averill
Wes Hingler is the son of dueling chefs. His father owns the Tsil Café and
he cooks with spicy chilies and seasonings that characterize the
southwestern cusine. His mother has cultivated a more subtle and
traditional way of cooking.The story recounts his tortuous but triumphant
journey to getting his own restaurant.
Devil’s Larder
by
Jim Crace
Crace has put together 64 food fables. He
shows that the line between nature and culture runs through our kitchens
between the raw and the cooked and gives us food for thought.
Like Water For Chocolate
by
Laura Esquival
This story takes place in turn of the
century Mexico around a family where much of the action centers around the
kitchen that is the heart and soul of a traditional Mexican family.
Bittersweet Journey
by
Enid Futterman
Charlotte leaves her husband in a quest for
more love, sex, and chocolate. She travels to the chocolate capitals of
the worlds in her quest. The author sprinkles the story with humor,
romance and nostalgia along with her passion for chocolate
Going To Bend
by
Diane Coplin Hammond
Rose and Petie are soup makers for a café
called Souperiors. Rose decides to write a cookbook and she wants Petie to
illustrate it. Their lives change as their hidden talents are unlocked,
but as they live their lives, they cope with grace and dignity.
Chocolat
by
Joanne Harris
Vianne Rocher opens up a luxuriant chocolate shop in the small village of
Lansquenet-sous- Tannes. It is Lent and the shop is across from the church
and open on Sunday. The parish priest is livid. One by one the locals
succumb to Vianne’s wonderful concoctions.
Five Quarters Of The Orange
by
Joanne Harris
Using her arsenal of culinary metaphors, quirky characters and slightly
surreal incidents, Harris presents the complicated tale of Framboise
Dartigen. When Framboise’s café is reviewed in a national magazine, the
notoriety starts a look into her background which she would like to keep
hidden.
Baker’s Apprentice
by
Judith Ryan Hendricks
This is the sequel to Hendricks’ first novel, “Bread Alone”. In the first
novel, Wynter needed rescuing and Mac was her knight. In this story, Mac
needs the rescuing from his writer’s block.
Bread Alone
by
Judith Ryan Hendricks
When her husband dumps her and her mother finds love after being a widow
for 15 years, Wynter Morrison transforms from a "willfully ignorant,"
betrayed wife living in sunny L.A., to a flannel shirt-wearing bakery
owner living in the rainy Northwest who finds love with a
bartender-turned-writer.
Friendship Cake
by
J. Lynne Hinton
Several female congregants of the Hope Springs Community Church in North
Carolina decide to create a cookbook. Each has her own special recipe to
share and a story to tell.
High Bonnet
by
Idwal Jones
Jean-Marie Gallois, is a young candy maker from Provence who has earned an
apprenticeship at Paris's famed Faisen d'Or restaurant. Along the way he
earns his “High Bonnet.” This is secondary to the author acquainting the
reader with a world dedicated to pursuing pleasure at the table and the
craft that makes it.
Pastries
by
Bharti Kirchner
A Seattle bakery owner, Sunya Malhotra, is
trying to get her tumultuous life back in order. For Sunya, the most
disconcerting aspect of her life is that she has lost her passion and
instinctive talent for baking. During the story she tries to regain what
she’s lost.
The Debt To Pleasure
by
John Lanchester
The author disguises a sinister tale of fraternal jealousy as an innocent
cookbook. Its narrator, a man who’s professed gentility conceals a
cold-blooded obsession and a sinister agenda
Blessed Are The Cheesemakers
by
Sarah-Kate Lynch
Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan make
their world-renowned cheese on their farm in County Cork, Ireland. They
realize that they are getting older and need to find someone to takeover
the business. Enter Joseph’s granddaughter who was taken away by her
mother years ago and a burned-out stockbroker who needs to get his life
back in order.
Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs Of
America
by
Nan Lyons
This is a sequel to “Someone Is Killing The
Great Chefs Of Europe.” Natasha O’Brien is promoting American regional
cooking. While high profile chefs are getting bumped off, Natasha’s
non-stop life is rolling right along, whether it’s launching American
Cuisine Magazine or cooking for the White House or organizing the Culinary
Olympics in Paris.
Little Indiscretions
by
Carmen Posadas
The death of a manipulative, mischievous
pastry chef sets the stage for this whodunit. Why would the victim be
clutching a piece of paper with a fragmentary list of dessert recipes in
his hand? In a series of flashbacks many possible suspects emerge.
La Cucina
by
Lily Prior
Rosa Fiore grew up the only girl in a
peasant family in rural Sicily. When the Mafia murders her first and only
love, she turns to cooking for solace. La Cucina, the heart of the
family's lush estate, was a place where generations of Fiore women
prepared sumptuous feasts and where the drama of extended family life was
played out around the age-old table.
Recipes For The Perfect Marriage
by
Morag Prunty
There are two stories that run parallel in this book. Tressa’s
unsuccessful marriage in 2004 Manhattan and her Irish grandmother,
Bernadine’s tale in 1930’s Ireland. Each woman learns that as food too
hurriedly made is inferior to it’s long cooking counterpart, so the
passionate love that immediately strikes the heart may pale in comparison
to the slow-growing, long-lasting love of marriage.
Olivia or, The Weight Of The Past
by
Judith Rossner
This is the story of a woman who turns a
passion for food into a career but in the process almost loses her
daughter and her self-esteem.
The Discovery Of Chocolate
by
James Runcie
In this winning blend of fiction and fact, a long-lived Spaniard serves as
narrator and guide through the Old World discovery and development of one
of life's consuming passions, CHOCOLATE!
The Book Of Salt
by
Monique T.D. Truong
Truong has concocted a delectable fictional memoir. Faced with the
decision about whether to accompany Stein and Toklas to America, return to
Vietnam, or remain in France, Binh, the Vietnamese cook who has labored
for the unconventional ladies he has dubbed "The Steins," for about five
years, reflects back on his troubled life.
Devil’s Food
by
Janice Weber
Adultery is the devil's food consumed by a bunch of Boston-based
overachievers in this complex, irresistible tale. Dead bodies, twins, and
eccentric characters are all expertly juggled in this sexy, exhilarating
read.
She Flew The Coop by Michael Lee
West
West brilliantly interweaves dark calamity with comedy to depict everyday
life in tiny Limoges, Louisiana, in 1952. Told through the voices of its
richly eccentric characters, She Flew the Coop is an entrancing picture of
Limoges's gossip mongering citizens and a beautifully rendered picture of
small-town life.
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