Food Fiction

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The Quilter’s Kitchen
By Jennifer Chiaverini
F CHIAVERI
Having joined Elm Creek's quilting circle, Anna remembers her experiences in her community's kitchens and becomes the writer of the group's cookbook, in a tale complemented by one hundred recipes.

Like Water for Chocolate
By Laura Esquivel
F ESQUIVEL
Tita, the youngest of three daughters, is expected to serve her mother for the rest of her life, but in order to show her love to Pedro, who is engaged to her sister, Tita cooks for him.

Five Quarters of the Orange
By Joanne Harris
F HARRIS
A widow in her sixties returns to the French town she left as a child and finds the clues to long-kept secrets in her mother’s recipe scrapbook.

Cooking for Harry
By Kay-Marie James
F JAMES
When her husband embraces a new diet, Francie becomes intimidated by his healthier outlook, attractive new friends, and the subsequent changes that occur within their family life.

Pomegranate Soup
By Marsha Mehran
F MEHRAN
Three Iranian sisters flee the turmoil of the Islamic Revolution to seek refuge in Ireland, where they open the exotic Babylon Cafe.

Eat Cake
By Jeanne Ray
F RAY
Ruth draws on her talent for baking when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in.

Entertaining Disasters
By Nancy Spiller
F SPILLER
A freelance writer for the LA glossy Food Writer undergoes a panic-stricken week before she must host the exclusive dinner party that she has actually invented in her columns.

World of Pies
By Karen Stolz
F STOLZ
In the 1960s, young Roxanne copes with a pie-baking contest that becomes a lesson in racial politics.

The Book of Salt
By Monique Truong
F TRUONG
Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonized Vietnam.