cookery

This book features nearly 200 recipes that were cooked up, served, or mentioned in your favorite novels and works of nonfiction, accompanied by an excerpt from the book that highlights the featured dish.

Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish boy who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.

With her neighborhood in decline following the Watts riots and the devastation of Reaganomics and her family divided by secrets, violence, and identity crises, Camille Broussard hopes to use her love of family and of cooking to bring everyone back together by opening a restaurant and enlisting her family to help get the enterprise on its feet.

An old diary discovered in the attic of an historic Cambridge house launches caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild into a troubling and dangerous murder mystery.