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[2012]
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"It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his...
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A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden.Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding...
63) InvestiGATORS
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InvestiGators volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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With their Very Exciting Spy Technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! Can Mango and Brash uncover the clues, crack their cases, and corral the crooks--or will the criminals wriggle out of their grasp?
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2012.
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It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middl0--aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she...
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2022.
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"Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn't know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There's no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another...
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The Gourmet Detective doesn't carry a gun and he doesn't have a license to prowl-his specialty is piecing together ancient recipes and tracking down obscure imgredients to make his clients' sauces sing. But when Scotland Yard volunteers him for case of murder most foul, how can he say no?
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[2020]
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"Months ago, hot-tempered celebrity chef Max Cavanagh publicly fell from grace, leaving southern belle celebrity chef Hadley Beckett at the center of the drama. Now forced to work together again, these polar opposites will either fall in love or burn down the kitchen"--
69) The menu
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[2023]
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A young couple travels to a faraway secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu, with some shocking surprises.
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2021.
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"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...
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When friends order her to take a vacation, successful chef Jilly O'Hara is less than enthused. A trip to the mountains is not her idea of fun, especially when she's roped into an outrageous scheme to pose as a happy bride. But the ruggedly handsome make-believe groom may just make it tolerable. Walker Hale has kept to himself since his return from active duty, but even this jaded loner isn't immune to Jilly's quirky charm.
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2005
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The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French...
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French...
74) Cooked
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2013.
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"Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with...
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A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home₇and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn't even know you were looking When Olivia Rawlings₇pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club₇sets not just her flambe?ed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of₇the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country's...
77) Hungry for you
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Argeneau series volume 14
Pub. Date
[2010]
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"As one of the most ancient in the Argeneau clan, Cale Valens has given up on finding a life mate. His friends and family, however, have not. In fact, they believe they've finally found his perfect match. Getting them together, however, requires one little white lie..."--p. [4] of cover.
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"Returning to the small Loire village of her childhood, Framboise Dartigen is relieved when no one recognizes her. Decades earlier, during the German occupation, her family was driven away because of a tragedy that still haunts the town. Now Framboise quietly opens a small creperie, pleasing diners with dishes from a prized family cookbook bequeathed to her by her mother."--P. [4] of cover.
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2009
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"A look at the difficulties of sustaining childhood bonds, it's also a satisfying meditation on how nourishment for the body can replenish the soul."
-People A novel that combines the moving story of a friendship told in letters with more than 80 delicious recipes, The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel (Taking Tea) and Nancy Garfinkel (The Wine Lover's Guide to Wine Country) is a wonderful literary banquet. A celebration of female bonding and excellent...
80) Odd Hours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.