Dev, Sonali
Summary: Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy in order to save her restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn't a complete screw up. When she's asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, what's the worst that could happen? Rico Silva, that's what. He was her first love, and ghosted her at the worst possible time in her life. A FIFA winning soccer star,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVMichaels, Fern
Summary: "Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene, but just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and Mateo and his family undergo a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICRyan, Jennifer
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RYAElliot, Amanda
Summary: "A chef's journey to success leads to discovering the perfect recipe for love in this delicious romantic comedy. Sadie is a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene. Her dream is to create unique, modern, and mouthwatering takes on traditional Jewish recipes. But after a public breakup with her boss, a famous chef, she is sure her career is over-until she lands a coveted spot on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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Summary: Hank is nothing like his cousin Judith Ann. She's perfect. He's not. She's a great chef. He's not. But when someone drops out of Judith Ann's cooking competition, Hank has the chance to show her that he can cook as well as she can, if not better.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WINAdams, Leisl
Summary: "In this fun graphic novel, a talented young chef is selected to participate in a baking reality show and finds herself mixed up in spicy competition, bitter rivalry, and sweet romance." --author's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ADAStilton, Geronimo
Summary: "My cousin Trap was entering the Super Chef Contest, which determines the best cook on Mouse Island--and he was bringing me along as an assistant. Slimy Swiss cheese, I don't know the first thing about cooking fancy dishes--and I didn't think Trap did, either"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and her deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "Fulfilling a promise to her dying mother, Elise Wright watches over her father as cook on his Great Lakes schooner. But the behavior of a new sailor unsettles her and first mate Nick Clark, who secretly begins investigating. When tragedy strikes, Nick and Elise must rely on their faith and each other as they confront their greatest fears"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETKing, Crystal
Summary: A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle's secrets--including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died. When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKerangal, Maylis de
Summary: The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young self-taught cook. The story is told by an unnamed female narrator, Mauro's friend and disciple who we also suspect might be in love with him. Set not only in Paris but in Berlin, Thailand, Burma, and other far-flung places over the course of fifteen years, the book is hyperrealistic--to the point of feeling, at times, like a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kerangal 2019Roker, Al
Summary: Billy Blessing is reinventing himself as a chef down in North Fork, Long Island. That is, until a young woman walks into the restaurant he works at talking about murder, asking if Billy could look into it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKO'Neill, Katie
Summary: Rinn has grown up the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep... but Rinn's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2019
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Summary: Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband's premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband's estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and to profile rising chef Sam Liang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MonesKrulik, Nancy E.
Summary: Katie's vacation aboard a cruise ship with on-deck miniature golf, a chance to swim with dolphins, and her best friend Suzanne along, sounds wonderful, but the magic wind throws everything off-course when it turns her first into a dolphin and then into a renowned chocolate chef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012
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Summary: Celebrity chef Billy Blessing struggles to clear his name by solving the murder of his producer, who has been poisoned while eating a dish from Billy's four-star restaurant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ROKKelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: White truffles in winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions, kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry, Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELCapella, Anthony.
Summary: Enchanted by Italy's rich culture, first-time American visitor Laura finds herself falling for the handsome Tomasso, who woos her with magnificent meals and hides the fact that shy, enamored Bruno is actually the chef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPMichaels, Fern
Summary: Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2023
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MichaelsRoker, Al
Summary: Celebrity chef Billy Blessing struggles to clear his name by solving the murder of his producer, who has been poisoned while eating a dish from Billy's four-star restaurant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROKRoberts, Nora.
Summary: In "Summer Desserts," dessert chef Summer Lyndon, who is determined never to fall in love, is tempted by her boss, Blake Cocharan, while in "Lessons Learned," publicist Juliet Trent is attracted to her client, chef Carlo Franconi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silhouette Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBStine, Matt
Summary: In honor of the special day, Lizzie wakes up super early, as any good chef should, to prepare the perfect meal for her grandmother, whom Lizzie lauds as the greatest chef in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEIBailey, Catherine
Summary: Lucy loves Sherman the lobster from the time they meet at Flotsam's Fish Market. When she learns of Chef Pierre's plans for Sherman, she takes action to rescue the eighteen-pound, eighty-year-old crustacean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017