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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. Like science,...
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Series
Popcorn shop mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Gourmet popcorn entrepreneur Rebecca Anderson and her poodle, Sprocket, are back on the case, in the second Popcorn Shop Mystery from the author of Kernel of Truth . Despite Rebecca Anderson's best efforts to distance herself from her ex-husband, the guy keeps popping up. When Antoine offers to feature her breakfast bars and popcorn fudge on his popular cooking show, she suspects he's once again trying to butter her up--but the TV exposure for her...
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Series
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sascha Nelson and her best friend, Nicole Hilliard, love to cook! So when their favorite TV show Kids' Big Chef Food Fights comes to their school for a special competition, they're ecstatic! But school cheaters Ashli and Nathan are also in the show. When Sascha and Nicole buy a mysterious can called Monster Blood is Back, they think they've found the perfect ingredient. Unfortunately, the trouble with Monster Blood always seems to grow and grow. Can...
4) Crime rib
Author
Series
Food lovers' village mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gourmet food market owner Erin Murphy is determined to get Jewel Bay, Montana's scrumptious local fare some national attention. But her scheme for culinary celebrity goes up in flames when the town's big break is interrupted my murder. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For as long as he can remember, Curtis Pith has been obsessed with becoming a chef like Lucas Taylor, host of Super Chef. And Curtis has a secret: Taylor is actually his long-absent father. So when Taylor announces a kids-only season of Super Chef, Curtis finally sees his chance to meet his dad. But after Curtis wins a spot in the competition and arrives in New York to film the show, nothing goes as smoothly as he expected. It's all riding on the...
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Series
Rajes volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Chef Ashna Raje thinks that joining the cast of Cooking with the Stars will help save her restaurant and prove to her mother that she's not a failure, but when she's paired with her first love, Rico Silva, the kitchen begins to heat up."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Running Press Teens
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Peyton Sinclaire believes winning the "Top Teen Chef" culinary scholarship is the only way to secure her future, but with nine other cooks in the kitchen and a meddling producer only interested in stirring the pot Peyton may have bit off more than she can chew.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren-which Jenny never had-Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence....
Author
Series
Space battle lunchtime volume 2
Publisher
Oni Press, an Oni Press Publication
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It's almost time for the season finale of Space Battle Lunchtime, and finalist Peony (the only Earth contestant) is nowhere to be found! That's because she's been kidnapped and taken to the set of Space Battle Lunchtime's biggest rival, Cannibal Coliseum, where chefs compete to cook... each other. Up against some of the most dangerous aliens in the galaxy, will Peony even make it to the end of the show? Stay tuned!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef's Special. Too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying--not quite the fresh start she was hoping for. Still, she's focused on winning, until she meets someone she might want a future with more than she needs the prize money. After announcing their pronouns on...
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Lights of Sugarberry Cove is a charming, delightful story of family, healing, love, and small town Southern charm by USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber. Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She's landed her dream marketing internship at Friends of Flavor, a wildly popular cooking channel in Seattle. The only problem? Benny Beneventi,the relentlessly charming, backwards-baseball-cap-wearing culinary intern--and her main competition for the fall job. Reese's plan to keep work a No Feelings Zone crumbles like a day-old muffin when...
Author
Series
Caribbean kitchen mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
16) On the line
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
Author
Series
Tea by the Sea mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When, during the filming of the country's hottest TV cooking show at her tea room, an infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge is murdered with her rolling pin, Lily whips up an impromptu investigation to catch a killer who could be anyone associated with the show.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out there...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Showcases the warmth, wit, and mastery of culinary icon Jacques Pépin as he cracks a bottle of wine (or two) and shares the greatest hits from his career, from classic French dishes to creative menues that vie to be his crowning glory. Reminisce with Jacques about cooking for French President Charles DeGaulle while he demonstrates how to recreate stately fare like Eggs en Cocotte with Morel and Shrimp and Veal Chops Dijonnaise, or join him as he...
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