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Delicious Reads

Title Call #

Fiction

The book of salt by Monique Truong

TRUONG
Bread alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks HENDRIC

Cooking for Harry: a low-carbohydrate novel
by Kay-Marie James

JAMES

Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

ABUJABE

The debt to pleasure by John Lanchester

LANCHES

The devil’s larder by Jim Crace

CRACE

The food of love by Anthony Capella

CAPELLA

Friendship cake by J. Lynne Hinton

HINTON
La cucina: a novel of rapture by Lily Prior PRIOR

Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies by Laura Esquivel

ESQUIVE

Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite

BRITE
Pastries : a novel of desserts and discoveries
by Bharti Kirchner
KIRCHNE
Pomegranate soup : a novel by Marsha Mehran MEHRAN

Scarpetta’s winter table by Patricia Cornwell

CORNWEL

Serving crazy with curry by Amulya Malladi

MALLADI
The tea house on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens OWENS

Texas cooking by Lisa Wingate

WINGATE

Velma still cooks in Leeway by Vinita Hampton Wright

WRIGHT

World of pies by Karen Stolz

STOLZ

Nonfiction

American pie: slices of life (and pie) from America’s backroads by Pascale LeDraoulec 641.8652 LEDRAOU
Charlemagne's tablecloth: a piquant history of feasting by Nichola Fletcher. 394.12 FLETCHE

Choice cuts: a savory selection of food writing from around the world and throughout history

641.013 CHOICE
Eat, drink, and be merry: poems about food and drink edited by Peter Washington 808.81935 EATDRIN
French lessons: adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew by Peter Mayle 944.9 MAYLE
Garlic and sapphires : the secret life of a critic in disguise by Ruth Reichl. 641.5092 REICHL REICHL
Kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 641.5092 BOURDAIN

The making of a chef: mastering heat at the Culinary Institute of America by Michael Ruhlman

641.5092 RUHLMAN
Stuffed : adventures of a restaurant family by Patricia Volk 641.5092 VOLK
A taste for adventure: a culinary odyssey around the world by Anik See 641.59 SEE
Tender at the bone: growing up at the table by Ruth Reichl 641.5092 REICHL
Toast: the story of a boy’s hunger by Nigel Slater 641.5092 SLATER

 

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