by Sandra Lee (2013)
Grace Holm-D'Angelo is at her wit's end, trying to create a new life from broken pieces. Newly divorced, she is navigating suddenly becoming a single mother to her fourteen-year-old daughter. Emma, resentful about being uprooted from Chicago to LA and still reeling from the divorce, is generally giving her mother a hard time. Then Grace's best friend, Leeza, succumbs to breast cancer after a long battle, and Grace realizes that you don't get a second chance at life. She returns to her hometown of New London, Wisconsin, to try to reconcile with her own mother, Lorraine, with whom she's been estranged for longer than she cares to remember. Over the course of the summer, Grace rediscovers the healing powers of cooking, coming to terms with your past, and friendship, and learns you can go home again, and sometimes that's exactly where you belong. Includes recipes.
Clive Gifford
Find out about food preparation and dining in Roman times, farming, eating out and eating at home, markets, gods and festivals and what foods the Romans brought to Britain. Make some tasty recipes from Roman Times, such as stuffed dates, lamb stew, honey and spinach omelette and Roman burgers. [back cover].
Jody Adams and Ken Rivard
The accaimed four-star chef of Boston's renowned Rialto restaurant shows readers how to cook with confidence, creating simple dishes using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients drawn from regional traditions, and provides her favorite dishes that she prepares at home, from simple soups and seasonal salads to delicious entrees.
Christa Parrish
Liesl McNamara's life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft. But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled grandson into the bakeshop as an apprentice. Her waitress submits Liesl's recipes to a popular cable cooking show. And the man who delivers her flour, a single father with strange culinary habits, seems determined to win Liesl's affection. When Wild Rise is featured on television, her quiet existence appears a thing of the past. And then a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister forces Liesl to confront long-hidden secrets in her family's past. With her precious heritage crumbling around her, the baker must make a choice: allow herself to be buried in detachment and remorse, or take a leap of faith into a new life.
Sally Ryder Brady
Sally Ryder Brady's *A Yankee Christmas Featuring Nantucket Noel* captures all the special qualities of Christmas in New England. Here you'll find a cornucopia of delicious recipes and traditional crafts, along with many hints for decorating, gift giving, and festive celebrations. An abundance of mouth-watering holiday recipes, fun and easy-to-do Christmas crafts, charming gift ideas, and plenty of welcome advice put the spirit into the Christmas season.