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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings. It's been a rough year for them, but it's about to get rougher when they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans, and the business being shunned, it's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.
3) Funny lunch
Author
Series
Max Spaniel volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2012, 2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Max Spaniel is chef at his own diner, where he serves up a variety of tasty meals.
Author
Series
Great chefs volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker), #1 bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts, tantalizes hearts in Lessons Learned, a story of two people from different countries and cultures, who together make the perfect recipe for romance.
Throughout Italy, master chef Carlo Franconi is famous for his culinary creations. Publicist to the stars Juliet Trent has prepared a worldwide tour that will showcase his irresistible international fare to every restauranteur...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This novel is the story of Mariel and Ned, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them"--
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
10) The Blue Bistro
Author
Language
English
Description
Elin Hilderbrand, author of the enchanting Summer People and The Beach Club, invites you to experience the perfect getaway with her sparkling new novel.
Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast money. When the desirable Thatcher Smith, owner of Nantucket's hottest restaurant, is...
11) Two eggs please
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. Lana Lee is back at her family's restaurant after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out. Lana figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together, even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news when the restaurant's property manager,...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wanting to try new things, Samson aspires to sample fine cuisine at fancy restaurants before discovering that the new restaurants in his corner of the sea are not exactly welcoming to customers with big teeth and scary smiles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One of the most hated women in the country, Meredith Collins, whose late ex-husband was guilty of embezzlement and fraud, returns to the beach town of Cape Sanctuary to help run her late grandmother's Last Hope Café with her cousin, and meets and falls in love with a man who is not what he seems.
15) The waiter
Author
Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest. In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. Some are there...
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
19) Two fur one
Author
Series
Home for meow volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every home needs a cat! Kira Parker lives above The Purrfect Cup, the cat caf̌ that her family owns and runs. When her parents decide they want to renovate it, she is worried because it means knocking down a wall! Why would they do that when the caf̌ is already purrfect? When a stray cat and its puppy companion find their way into the caf̌, Kira has the GREAT IDEA to convince her parents that they belong at The Purrfect Cup. They don't need to...
20) Show and tail
Author
Series
Home for meow volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kira Parker lives above the Purrfect Cup, the cat café that her family owns and runs. And soon, the café will get new kittens! Bubbles's belly has been growing bigger and bigger, and on Kira's first day of school, Bubbles finally becomes a mama cat. But she has six kittens, which is ... too many! Not to worry though, because Kira has a GREAT IDEA. She's going to find each kitten a family by matching them with her classmates! But matchmaking isn't...
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