restaurateurs

Cousins Yale and Celine Yee, the owners of a successful food stall business, are invited to an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owners association. However, the hot pot dinner ends in the murder of Jeffery Vue, president of the group. The police focus on a family friend and on Yale's dad. Yale and Celine investigate the others at the dinner to find the culprit.

"With her first book, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In her follow-up, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and stories, that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives"--.

"The true story of an intrepid young man, Ma Mon Luk, who leaves China for the Philippines, desperate to earn a living-and the approval of the parents of the woman he loves"--.

A picture book relating the true story of Alice Waters, creator of the farm-to-table, organic restaurant Chez Panisse. Alice loved the taste of fresh food growing up, food grown nearby and picked when it was ripe, but as the twentieth century went on, more and more food became processed and packaged. Alice didn't like that, so she started Chez Panisse to bring people fresh, organic, better tasting, and healthier food, and started the organic revolution.

"Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later, as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's healthy, sustainable, and thoughtful"--Provided by publisher.

" . . . takes readers behind the scenes of one of America's trendiest new restaurants, revealing how Lien Ta and chef Jonathan Whitener of LA's Here's Looking at You managed to beat the odds. With valuable information about what daily life for a professional is like, this is an entertaining, practical guide to what makes a master restaurateur, from writing the business plan to opening night and beyond"--Publisher.

"A memoir of Joe Bastianich, which charts his culinary journey from working in his parents' red-sauce joint to becoming one of the country's most successful restaurateurs"--Provided by publisher.

"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, ofthe globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalape?o pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--Provided by publisher.

Tom Stall becomes a local hero after killing two criminals intent on robbing his diner in small-town Indiana and leaving no witnesses, but Tom's past is called into question when the media hype attracts three mobsters who insist they have an old score to settle with the quiet family man.

Photographs and brief text describes some of the people involved in running a restaurant, along with their duties.