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Faith Fairchild volume 8
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Faith Fairchild's neighbor, Pix Miller, heads off to Norway to investigate the sudden disappearance of a family friend. Determined to discover the truth, Pix is drawn into a suspenseful world of intrigue, stolen antiques, secret histories, and deadly echoes from Norway's past and the Nazi occupation.
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Ruth Reichl knows that to be a good restaurant critic you have to be anonymous, but when she signs up to be the most important restaurant critic in the country, her picture is posted in every four-star, low-star, and no-star kitchen in town. What's a critic in search of the truth to do?
1365) Woman on top
Description
Isabella decides to break free from her rocky marriage to Nino and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil. She moves to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career. Isabella reunites with her exuberant, cross-dressing childhood friend Monica, and together they devise the perfect recipe for coming out on top.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"This is the tale of a journey between three great cities--Odessa, built on a dream by Catherine the Great, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon. With a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden travels from Odessa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey's Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odessa, to...
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Series
Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
When caterer Faith Fairchild's husband's job takes the family out of peaceful Aleford, Massachusetts, and into greater Boston, death rears its ugly head in the big city as well.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for "a goodly amount of salt" or "a lump of butter" or "a suspicion of nutmeg." Girls were supposed to use their "feminine instincts" in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the Boston Cooking School. Unlike her mother or earlier cookbook...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"From the writers of acclaimed blog Pen & Palate, a humorous coming-of-age (and mastering-the-art-of-home-cooking) memoir of friendship, told through stories, recipes, and beautiful illustrations. Getting through life in your twenties isn't easy--especially if you're broke, awkward, and prone to starting small grease fires in your studio apartment. For best friends Lucy Madison and Tram Nguyen, cooking was an escape from the daily humiliation that...
1374) Pressure cooker
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal. You work hard. You work the system. You get out of Northeast...
1375) Oregon Trail cooking
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Discusses the everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, and common foods of pioneers who traveled west on the Oregon Trail during the nineteenth century. Includes recipes.
1380) Cook's Country
Series
Cook's Country volume Season 9
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The ninth season features the best regional home cooking in the country from host Christopher Kimball and favorite chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they uncover blue-ribbon regional specialties from across the country, and classic fare in need of a makeover. Also includes tips and techniques, food tastings, equipment tests, and printable versions of all 31 recipes.
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