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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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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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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...
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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...
7) 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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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...
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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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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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When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi's parents feel they have no other choice: they ship her off to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Within the confines of this restrictive culture, Rossi's big city dreams take root. Once she makes her way to Manhattan, Rossi's passion for cooking, which first began as a revolt against the microwave, becomes her life mission. The...
14) 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...
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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The newest installment in the Cannabis Café cozy mystery series featuring twenty-eight-year-old, classically trained pastry chef Chloe Barnes-sure to appeal to millennial readers as well as lovers of classic cozy mysteries!
What a long, strange trip it's been for Chloe. After her dream of becoming a Parisian pastry chef-and a wife-crashed and burned, she returned home to the seaside town of Azalea Bay, California and opened a cannabis café....
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Summer guests are eager to sink their teeth into tantalizing desserts at The Chocolate Moose, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White's bakeshop in the island village of Eastport, Maine. But attracting the wrong kind of attention can be deadly . . .
With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned...
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The host of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible shows busy people how to keep food simple but delicious
Chef Robert Irvine goes where few chefs dare. As the host of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible, he has cooked on a desert island, in an eighteenth-century kitchen, inside an ice hotel, and even for cowpunchers on a cattle drive. In Impossible to Easy, he converts the classical and improvisational kitchen skills he's learned during the past twenty-five...
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The star of Food Network's Dinner: Impossible, Chef Robert Irvine shares the adventurous story of his life, his thoughts on cooking, and his favorite recipes
There are few chefs on the planet who do what Irvine does, flying around the world at a moment's notice to cook for heads of state, royalty, and celebrities. Irvine reveals his fascinating past and unorthodox culinary training. His career as a world-renowned chef began at the age of fifteen...
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Cece wants a day of self-care, mother-daughter time, and . . . anything but her ex-husband's wedding. But wedding it is, as she tries to sneak the groom's forgotten ring to her daughter before the ceremony. Her plan for a quick escape from the venue is thwarted when she discovers a body and a garden full of suspects, including her former mother-in-law. With the Cavanaugh name in danger of being dragged through the Wickford rumor mill, Cece's ex reluctantly...
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