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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir-a classic American story-invites readers...
Author
Language
English
Description
Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man, in particular, stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon, a quiet, intense sword craftsman, whose very...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened-and closed- one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he'd been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn't "Southern" enough. in this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable...
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Language
English
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"In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chef Lou Johnson works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling restaurant, Luella's, into a success. She cheerfully balances business, friends, and fiance...until fate intervenes. She's just baked her fiance a rich, delectable coconut cake, but when she drops by his apartment with the birthday surprise, she discovers him in the buff--with an intern. Sardonic British transplant Al writes pseudonymous, scathing...
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Language
English
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Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country, was steeped in the language, chatting with purveyors...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this young adult adaption of his biography, Onwuachi tells how he was sent from the Bronx to rural Nigeria by his mother to 'learn respect.' Through food, he broke out of a dangerous downward spiral and embarked on a new beginning at the bottom of the culinary food chain before going on to train in the kitchens of some of the most acclaimed restaurants in the country and appearing as a contestant on Top Chef. His love of food and cooking was a...
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Series
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English
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Years ago Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up - and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers - all strapping, loud,...
Author
Series
Follow your heart volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When budding chef Tia D'Amico moves to San Francisco to help her aunt restore an old luxury yacht's restaurant, she discovers that the newly hired captain is her old crush, Leo Parker -- and he's engaged. As Tia learns her new job, figures out the business and struggles with secrets, loyalties, and her uncle's severe medical condition, she and Leo become friends. But could it become more than friendship? "
13) Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The film brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's twelve year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more...
14) Menu for romance
Author
Series
Brides of Bonneterre volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After eight years of unrequited love, wedding planner Meredith decides it's time to move on. When the handsome contractor she hires asks her out, it looks like the answers to her prayers. When chef Major O'Hara sees he's about to lose her, can he con
Author
Series
Sweet magnolias series volume 2
Language
English
Description
When her teenage daughter ends up in the hospital after starving herself, chef Dana Sue must embrace the power of forgiveness when her cheating husband, whom she kicked out, returns home to help her deal with their self-destructive child.
17) Run, Remy, run!
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Remy tries to be a chef but the other cooks attempt to chase him away.
19) A dash of love
Series
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An aspiring chef lands a dream job at her idol's restaurant, but when she and another chef are both fired from there, they decide to open their own eatery.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England--now a bestseller in the UK. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30am and went on until after dark. In this captivating memoir,...
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