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"[Ginsberg's] poignant, gently written stories of waitressing are metaphors for life." -Dallas Morning News
A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen doors.
Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twenty-year journey as a waitress at a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club,...
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The Two-Lane Gourmet is the first wine-and-cuisine guide to sample top estate vineyards, intriguing inns, and intimate dining in all three West Coast states, from Southern California to Washington.
Come along with bestselling author Tom Snyder on a delightful tour of more than two thousand miles of breathtaking wine country roads to enjoy hundreds of handcrafted wines, unique entrées, and gracious inns---all waiting for you to discover and appreciate...
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Donuts and Murder Cozy Mystery Collection Books 1-2 Donuts and Murder Short Story: The Gossip ColumnistWhen a gossip columnist is murdered, Annabelle finds herself caught in the web of suspects. Donuts and Murder Short Story: The MournerWhen her oldest and wealthiest customer dies, Annabelle finds herself caught in the middle of an inheritance feud which leads to murder.
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Keeley Carpenter has found her center. After returning to Befrey, the traditional English village she called home ten years ago, she's opened her dream yoga café, which doubles as both a yoga studio and a delicious vegetarian café. Even better, Keeley is dating handsome Detective Ben Taylor, and things are beginning to look serious.
Too bad things never seem to run smoothly for long. Eager to get involved with the local community, Keeley sets up...
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Soyez les bienvenus dans votre nouveau guide Voyage Expérience : « Khao Lak, Phang Nga et la région » qui, nous l'espérons, va vous aider à découvrir une partie de ce pays magnifique moins connue par les touristes et moins détaillée dans les guides de voyages. Pourtant, dans ce coin-là de la Thaïlande, il y a des plages paradisiaques, de superbes paysages karstiques, une nature luxuriante, des gens chaleureux et accueillants, et une richesse...
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The latest installment in Darci Hannah's delicious Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series set in small-town Beacon Harbor, Michigan, featuring a baker heroine who lives in the local lighthouse with her beloved Newfoundland dog, Wellington.
Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop's Halloween decor light and autumnal, rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried to...
Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop's Halloween decor light and autumnal, rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried to...
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From New York Times bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon, comes another Cat Latimer cozy mystery.
Cat Latimer found her author career and her love of writing in a paranormal academy series so when the writers retreat gets a group of all paranormal authors, she's over the moon. However, a local professor is causing waves since she doesn't think the retreat or the authors it hosts is literary enough to be sponsored by Covington College anymore.
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A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City.
Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked back with the Tammany Hall machine. Where a pair of Houdini's handcuffs found their final resting place. And where soldiers left behind wishbones before departing for the First World War, never to...
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The author of Front Yard Gardens celebrates the joy of garlic-from its culinary history to advice on growing and cooking with the indispensable ingredient.
Liz Primeau's love affair with garlic began when her teenaged boyfriend took her to an Italian restaurant for spaghetti served with heavenly garlic-laced meatballs, a sublime escape from the bland English dinners she was used to at home. Here, Primeau celebrates that culinary love, discussing...
50) Tapped Out
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No one is exactly what they seem…Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes should be focusing on planning her wedding and a friend's baby shower, as well as running her maple syrup farm.Instead, her "former" profession won't let her go.Her maid of honor, Elise Scott, is suspended from her job as a Fair Haven police officer for investigating a case she shouldn't have been anywhere near, endangering not only her career but also her relationship with a...
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John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are in danger of disappearing as old ways of agriculture, butchering, and cooking fade and are forgotten. In this charming culinary travel memoir, John Baxter follows...
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SYNOPSIS:"Tell started all this television madness about chefs." - Regis Philbin Germany's youngest Master Chef, Friedemann Paul Erhardt, faces an outdoor audition in Philadelphia for a cooking slot on what will be America's first syndicated television show. UScriptless and using his wit and personality alone, he wins, birthing a new culinary breed: the TV showman chef.
Within weeks, 40,000,000 avid fans tune in to Evening Magazine or PM Magazine...
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Starting with the Thanksgiving turkey that never quite finishes cooking, then moving to the polenta that unceremoniously goes runny and the guests that arrive a day early-there is no topic Tess Rafferty fails to encounter, or hilariously recount. Recipes for Disaster is as though Bridget Jones wrote a culinary narrative-the most pristine of intentions slowly disappear, as does the wine along with any hope of a seamless and well-orchestrated dinner...
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At the age of eleven, the daughter of a Sicilian sharecropper, Maria Grammatico, entered the San Carlo Institute in the mountaintop town of Erice, an orphanage run by nuns who were famous throughout Sicily for their almond pastries, but who were less adept at dealing with young girls. After ten years of hard work and harsh discipline, Maria emerged with the secrets of the nuns' pastries hidden inside her head. This is the story of her carefree...
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Snips and Snails is fast becoming a raving success, there's Romance in the air for her and Jack, and she has solved her first two murders. Proof positive that life after 40 doesn't have to be slippers and her favorite soap opera. She should have known better. Because now there's a dead body in the pantry of Lovelace Resort. Is he the hapless victim of the fastidious chef because he didn't do the dishes? Or was his death the result of a million-dollar...
56) Outlaw Cook
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In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on the food writers of the past ten years, John Thorne argues that to eat exactly what you want, you have to make it yourself. Thorne tells us how he learned to cook for himself the foods that he likes best to eat, and following along with him can make you so hungry that his simple, suggestive recipes...
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A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today's food and hospitality landscape, from farm to table and beyond, chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.
Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error, as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine, but what if she had known then what she knows now?...
59) The Missing Doll
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Annabelle Darlin stumbles upon a strange mystery with a bizarre twist after a collectable doll goes missing and a customer is murdered. She races to solve the mystery of the connection between the two crimes before the real killer gets away.
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From a Nickel to an Empire.
Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nathan Handwerker. An Eastern European Jewish immigrant who left the small provincial world he knew for a fresh start in America, Nathan arrived at Ellis Island speaking not a word of English, unable to read or write, and with twenty-five dollars hidden in his shoes. He had a simple goal: work hard and carve out a piece...
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