THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKE
By: Amy E. Reichert
You’ve Got Mail meets How to Eat a Cupcake in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant—whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities.
SWEETBITTER
By: Stephanie Danler
A year in the life of a beguiling young woman in the wild world of a famous downtown New York restaurant follows her burning effort to become someone of importance through a backwaiter job that enables her indulgences in culinary and intellectual interests.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE LAKESIDE SUPPER CLUB
By: J. Ryan Stradal
In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who’s having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business—the Lakeside Supper Club.
ARSENIC AND ADOBO
By: Mia P. Manansala
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her exboyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
THE KITCHEN FRONT
By: Jennifer Ryan
An indebted young widow, a freedom-seeking kitchen maid, the wife of a wealthy but unkind man and a trained chef navigating sexism compete for a once-in-alifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II.
THE NASTY BITS
By: Anthony Bourdain
The best-selling chef and author shares a candid and outrageous collection of his worldwide culinary misadventures, from scrounging for eel in backstreet Hanoi, to quarreling with raw-food activist Woody Harrelson, to revealing the less than glamorous aspects of making television.
YOUR TABLE IS READY
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
In this entertaining, enlightening and edgy memoir, a career maître d’hotel, who has manned the front room at the hottest restaurants in NYC from the 1970s to 2020, breaks down how restaurants really run (and don’t) and how the economics work for owners and staff alike.
RADHA & JAI’S RECIPE FOR ROMANCE
By: Nisha Sharma
To All the Boys I Loved Before meets World of Dance in this delectable love story that combines food, dance, and a hint of drama to cook up the perfect romance.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, COOK!
By: Charise Mericle Harper
It’s “lights, camera, cook!” for four tween contestants who are all about to enter a televised cooking competition. What will the kids cook up? How will they all get along on- and offcamera? Which junior chef will have the grit—and maybe the grits—to make it through each challenge?
FOOD TRUCK FEST!
By: Alexandra Penfold
Join the members of one family as they head to the Food Truck Fest! They gather their things, cross the bridge, and prepare for a fun-filled day. And as they get ready, the workers on the food trucks get ready, too--preparing, tasting, and traveling across the bridge to join all the other kitchens-on-wheels.
