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Get the Summary of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" chronicles his journey from a rebellious youth intrigued by food to a seasoned chef navigating the culinary world's highs and lows. His passion ignited by experiences in France and aboard the Queen Mary, Bourdain's career began in Provincetown's chaotic kitchens, leading to his...
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Get the Summary of Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood Bones Butter in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Blood, Bones & Butter" by Gabrielle Hamilton is a memoir that traces the author's journey from her unconventional childhood in rural Pennsylvania to her establishment as a renowned chef and restaurant owner. Hamilton grew up in a family that celebrated food and community, with her mother's culinary skills and her father's...
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Get the Summary of Michael Cecchi-Azzolina's Your Table Is Ready in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Your Table Is Ready" chronicles Michael Cecchi-Azzolina's journey through the high-stakes world of New York City's restaurant scene. From his early days in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, learning the ropes as an altar boy and candy store worker, to his encounters with the Mob, Cecchi-Azzolina's path is marked by colorful...
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Get the Summary of Marco Pierre White's The Devil in the Kitchen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Devil in the Kitchen" is the autobiography of Marco Pierre White, a celebrated chef with a reputation for perfectionism and a fiery temperament. White's journey begins with his childhood in Leeds, marked by the loss of his mother and the influence of his chef father. His father's strict discipline and gambling...
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Get the Summary of Alex Prud'homme's Dinner with the President in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Dinner with the President" by Alex Prud'homme is a comprehensive exploration of the culinary habits and food policies of American presidents, from George Washington's austere meals at Valley Forge to the complex relationship between food and politics in the White House. The book delves into the personal tastes of presidents,...
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With over 25 years of catering experience in both New York and California, Sudi "Rick" Karatas shares the best and worst, that the event and hospitality profession has, to offer. Mostly the worst. His very funny stories include, weddings (one with a runaway groom), a bar mitzvah where OJ Simpson was a guest, a $5-million birthday party for three-year-old twins, and an unforgettable gig on 9/11. You'll get an inside peek at what goes on behind the...
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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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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...
9) 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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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?...
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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...
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DEATH BY DUMPLINGJuli Mason hired Bertie the Bag Lady, living in the alley behind Snips and Snails, out of desperation.It was a smooth move.Who knew Bertie would clean up so well? … Or that she was in actual fact, a Sous Chef with serious skills in the kitchen?When the Hat River in Veil Falls coughs up a wrecked Cadillac Sedan beneath the Fae Road Bridge and Bertie Faints at the news...Juli smells a mystery...There's something strange going on in...
13) Madeira Silence
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BEAUTY IS PAIN
Madeira's ladies are happy. At last there is a beauty farm just for them. Leticia Avila and her friend Inês are also immediately drawn to the temple of beauty. They enjoy mud packs, peelings and massages. But then they make the acquaintance of the unpleasant journalist Sofia Lima, who, following in the footsteps of Empress Sisi, unsettles the island and the staff of the beauty farm.
Meanwhile, Comissário Avila looks after his little...
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In the latest enchanting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon, kitchen witch Mia Malone is working as a catering director at a ski lodge, but when her roommate's ex checks in, everything starts going downhill . . .
To keep her cooking school and catering business, Mia's Morsels, afloat, Mia's handed off oversight to her boyfriend Trent's mother while she focuses on earning a steady paycheck. Too bad her mean-spirited...
To keep her cooking school and catering business, Mia's Morsels, afloat, Mia's handed off oversight to her boyfriend Trent's mother while she focuses on earning a steady paycheck. Too bad her mean-spirited...
15) Asesinato en el Café Pasteles Mágicos: ¡Un divertido misterio paranormal con un toque de romance!
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De repente, tenía magia. ¿Podría usarla para resolver una misteriosa muerte en su familia?
Trepar a un árbol bajo una tormenta eléctrica siempre sería una idea estúpida, pero cuando Evelyn Eldritch se ve golpeada por un rayo, sus poderes mágicos se activan. ¡Y ni siquiera sabía que era una bruja!
Cuando Evelyn se entera de que su madre biológica ha muerto bajo circunstancias sospechosas, emprende viaje al pintoresco pueblecito de Maiden-Upon-Avon,...
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It's Juli's job to make sure the Soup of the Day delivers...a daily dose of magic that is. But when a mysterious burnt offering shows up at the local retirement home, she's positive it has nothing to do with cannelloni beans and ham hocks. As the new owner of Snips and Snails Cafe, and Veil Falls only Soup Witch in training, she starts every day just hoping her latest creation doesn't turn all her customers into newts and frogs. Moonlighting as Veil...
17) Murder Sundae
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2023 Distinguished Cozy Murder Mystery Award Winner Former NYPD forensics expert Celia Strong thought she'd left the world of crime behind when she opened an ice cream shop in idyllic Blue Lake Village in the Adirondack Mountains... But when a famous classical musician is murdered in the middle of a concert at Blue Lake, Celia and her daughter team up with locals to help the new deputy sheriff solve the crime! Springtime in Blue Lake. Former NYPD...
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A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape -- not to mention a brilliant comic's mind -- this diary is chock-full of everything you ever wanted to know about Eric Idle, Monty Python, America, and sleeping on a bus. In these pages, the sixth-nicest Python is cheeky, touching, and funny when recounting the riotous tales of his beginnings, his affectionate reminiscences of his fellow Pythons, traveling the world, and taking us backstage...
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Another cruise is off to a deadly start…Ruth Shores-cruise ship pastry chef extraordinaire-is busy creating her scrumptious desserts for an upcoming class reunion. The party includes an appearance by the famed alumnus and world-renowned author, Vincent Von Hemmingsly.Understaffed, Ruth must work alongside her best friend, Loretta Moran, to meet an unrealistic deadline for the party. But there is a shining hope: newly hired John Anderson, a recent...
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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell
For the first time, Ramsay tells the full inside story of his life and how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a soccer player, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona-all of the things that made him the celebrated culinary...
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