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Eight students gather weekly in Lillian’s Restaurant for cooking class. It soon becomes clear that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students’ lives.

A Capucine Culinary mystery that features Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier, who plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career… or kill it.

A Little Taste of Heaven catering certainly knows how to feed people. But when they are asked to cater a dog’s party, the intrigue howls with mystery as the dog owner ends up dead after the party. Bernie and Libby had better close the door on this case fast – before they get burned.

This Colorado caterer doesn’t have a moment to spare as she pulls together two wedding receptions, including last-minute venue and menu changes from a spoiled bridezilla. When Harold Doc Finn, Aspen Meadow’s beloved retired doctor, dies under mysterious circumstances on his way to the first wedding ceremony, was it an accident or murder?

Browse through the most beloved recipes that customers use from packaging. This book includes a variety of categories that will attract any household cook, and tempt the taste buds of guests!

Initially told through a series of emails, letters and recipes, we learn about Val and Lilly and the power of friendship and food to enrich and nourish us. They deal with issues of trust, love, anger and resentment between friends, and how friendships can always move in time.

This novel is a reimagining of the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier. A man of food contradictions, Escoffier was torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt, and his wife, independent poet Delphine Daffis. Indulge in this novel of the sensuality of food and love amid a world on the verge of war.

These linked stories share the bonds that hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. The characters learn how to honor the past, how to realize you’re no longer in love, and how to forgive. These women and men meet, eat, drink, love, leave and in the end, come together in Seattle where they realize they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink.

When one of the judges at this year’s Scottsdale Food Festival is murdered, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura, the owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, must beat a clever killer at his own game, while whipping up some delicious treats.

Managing sudden widowhood and joblessness by cooking bounteous and sumptuous feasts that she shares with her neighbors, Angelina D’Angelo is offered a job as cook, for a retiree and his elderly sister. She finds her culinary talents winning her a circle of friends and protectors.

In the fast paced life of blogging, two women stand out: Alexis Allbright, of Skinny Chick, and Shoshana Weiner, who writes Fat and Fabulous. When both appear as panelists on a popular talk show, their lives intersect in ways neither could have imagined. In turns comedic, heartwarming—and familiar to any woman who’s ever stepped on a scale.

No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. The author begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God.

Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she’s got her addictive personality under control. However, after personal losses, feeling lonely, and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. Due to a scheduled television appearance promoting her book, she begins a search for a counselor to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up!

Follow the author as she shares a colorful commentary, and edgy common sense, on every aspect of life; from food, fashion, grooming, cleaning, and organizing. Once you level with yourself and lighten up, life can be happier—and a lot more fun. Tackles essential life issues with outrageously funny and honest stories and surprisingly helpful advice from the quirky duo.