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Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isnt a complete screw up? When shes asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, the latest hit reality show teaming chefs with celebrities, it seems like just the leap of faith she needs to put her restaurant back on the map. Shes a chef, whats the worst that could happen? Rico Silva, thats...

Lovelorn Stanley Moon, a short-order cook at Wimpy Bar, is infatuated with the beautiful waitress Margaret Spencer. This unrequited love causes Stanley to nearly end his life until he is visited by George Spiggot, The Devil, who offers Stanley seven wishes in exchange for his soul. After accepting the offer, Stanley soon realizes "the Devil's in the details" as each wish he makes takes on a surprising twist compliments of the Evil One himself!

"It has been four and a half decades since Alice Waters opened the doors of Chez Panisse, the 'little French restaurant' in Berkeley, California, that has been at the leading edge of the American culinary revolution ever since. Fueled in equal parts by naïveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, Alice transformed our relationship with food, fine dining, and what it means to eat well. In [this book], Alice reflects on the desultory...

Forced to work in her unpleasant uncle's horrible restaurant, a Parisian girl finds comfort and companionship in a shop nearby that sells otherworldly foods prepared by a mysterious cook and her cat.

Sadie Hoffmiller is working undercover for the BLM on an archeological site in New Mexico when she stumbles across a pair of recently deceased bodies and becomes involved in the black market world of Indian artifact theft.

A young couple travels to a secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu. What they don't know is tonight's clientele have been selected for a specific reason, and they are all involved in the spectacle he intends to perform.

Today's most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared.

Take one rich, eccentric, morbidly obese gourmand; add a beautiful, sexy dessert chef; mix with them a fast-food entrepreneur; and you've got the fixings for a stylish treat.

Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen re-discovering the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the...

When Halia is invited to serve as a guest judge on the popular cooking competition show Elite Chef, she's delighted to add some extra flavor to the mix. But as filming ramps up in Washington D.C., there are too many fiery personalities in the kitchen. Halia discovers that pulling off her small screen debut unscathed means contending with a longtime competing restaurant owner, an infamously crass hospitality mogul, and a group of cutthroat contestants...