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• The Kamogawa Food Detectives

  Kashiwai, Hisashi, 1952-

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  Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet, "food detectives" Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare are the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner. Through ingenious investigations, they recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories, which hold the keys to their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Bakery in Paris

  a Novel

  Runyan, Aimie K.,

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  Set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris, this novel follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.

• Automatic Noodle

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  When a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food--the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around--for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes

  Jackson-Opoku, Sandra,

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  When Savvy Summers first opened Essie's soul food café, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers, the 75-year-old neighborhood womanizer, drops dead at table…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

  Stradal, J. Ryan,

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  In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who's having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake

  Linden, Rachel

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  Rising star Jules Costa loves re-creating vintage recipes for her popular online cooking show. Then personal and professional disaster strikes. Jules returns to her family’s Italian olive farm on the shores of Italy's stunning Lake Garda to finish a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chow Maniac

  Chien, Vivien,

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  In the latest Noodle Shop Mystery, Lana Lee teams up with private detective Lydia Shepard to solve the murders of members of the secretive Eight Immortals order in Asia Village, navigating hidden connections, personal stakes, and dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Slowest Burn

  a Novel

  Chamberlain, Sarah, 1987-

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  Ellie, a hyperorganized cookbook ghostwriter, takes on a new client - Kieran, a reality cooking show star who struggles with ADHD and dyslexia. When they clash, to help them work together, their editor sends them to wine country for a week to work…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Knife Skills for Beginners

  Murrin, Orlando,

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  Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, this novel is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger—and how far we’d go to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dinner at the Night Library

  a Novel

  Harada, Hika, 1970-

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  Otoha Higuchi finds solace and community working at The Night Library, a mysterious Tokyo institution housing rare books, where she and other literary misfits bond nightly over meals inspired by literature, until strange occurrences threaten their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aftertaste

  Lavelle, Daria

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  Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, this novel is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger—and how far we’d go to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Taste

  a Novel in Search of Great Food

  Scott, Caroline,

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  A popular author in 1932 is commissioned to write a history of food in England to lift the spirits of the country during the Great Depression and finds herself traveling the countryside and interviewing housewives for hidden culinary gems.

• Butter

  a Novel of Food and Murder

  Yuzuki, Asako, 1981-

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  The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins a correspondence with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Julia

  a Novel Inspired by the Extraordinary Life of Julia Child

  Moore, Heather B.,

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  A fictionalized account of the life of Julia Child. Julia leaves behind a privileged life in California to join the OSS during World War II, decoding covert messages and aiding the Allied effort. Amid her far-reaching missions, she meets Paul Child,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House Witch. Volume 1

  Delemhach,

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  When Finlay Ashowan joins the staff of the King and Queen of Daxaria, he's an enigma. No one knows where he comes from or how he came to be where he is, which suits Fin just fine. He's satisfied simply serving as the royal cook, keeping nosy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Land of Milk and Honey

  Zhang, C Pam,

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  In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, a talented chef flees the world's smog-ridden, comestibles-starved desolation to serve amazing dishes at a mountaintop retreat for the elite. Her new job reawakens her senses and her love of food and…Read moreRead more of this annotation