Recipe for a Good Read

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Fiction

Cooking for Picasso
Camille Aubray

Recipe for Disaster
Stacey Ballis

Too Many Cooks
Dana Bate

The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister

Hot Mess
Emily Beldon

Lizzie & Dante
Mary Bly

Sweet Heat
Zuri Day

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Sonali Dev

The Pasha of Cuisine
Saygin Ersin

The Secret Ingredient
Kenneth D. Fisher

Margherita's Notebook: A Novel of Temptation
Elisabetta Flumeri

The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship
Elizabeth M. Harbison

How Sweet it is: A Legacy of Faith Novel
Robin Lee Hatcher

Before Anyone Else
Leslie Hooton

The Cook
Maylis de Kerangal

Food of the Gods
Cassandra Khaw

The Glass Kitchen
Linda Francis Lee

The Late Bloomer’s Club
Louise Miller

The Hundred-Foot Journey
Richard C. Morais

Little Culinary Triumphs
Pascale Pujol

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Amy E. Reichert

The Kitchen Front
Jennifer Ryan

All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes
Betsy St. Amant

Simmer Down
Sarah Smith

Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Ryan J. Stradal

Hadley Beckett’s Next Dish
Bethany Turner

Nonfiction

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain  641.5 BOU

Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi  641.5 ONW

The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act
Alex Prud’homme  641.5 PRU

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Ruth Reichl  641.5 REI

32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line   
Eric Ripert  641.5 RIP

Yes, Chef
Marcus Samuelsson  641.5 SAM

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Ann Mah  641.5944 MAH

Good Stock: Life on a Low Simmer: A Memoir, with Recipes
Sanford D’Amato  641.5945 DAM

Stories From the Kitchen
Diana Secker Tesdell, ed.  808.039 STO

The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
Anchee Min  813.54 MIN 

TS 11/16; Rev. JDC 9/21