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1) Heartburn
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
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"This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed, forever, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace, and a colorful group of editors and art directors...
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Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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"When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from...
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When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she?s never tasted fresh garlic--exotic...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
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xi, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Author of the internationally famous blog, Orangette, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined.
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After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie?s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace . . . until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Rumor has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. One night, Ava confronts the apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her...
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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384 pages ; cm
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In Fasting and Feasting, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable?and until now untold?life story of Patience Gray: from her privileged and intellectual upbringing in England, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, and author, and describing her travels and culinary adventures in later years. A fascinating and spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times...
9) Toast
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The life and career of food writer Nigel Slater.
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Capucine culinary mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
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Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career or kill it.
13) Cheddar off dead
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
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296 pages ; 18 cm.
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Everything goes wrong at Willa Bauer's newly-opened, French-inspired cheese shop in Sonoma Valley, Curds & Whey, when the local food critic is discovered stabbed to death there, making her the prime suspect.
14) Killer critique
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When a killer targets food critics in the City of Light, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier, a seasoned member of the Paris Police Judiciaire, must decide whether or not to use her husband, a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait.
15) Death of a chef
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After the body of an acclaimed chef turns up in what looks like an apparent suicide, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier suspects that it is really a murder, as she also tries to exonerate the food critic who is seen as the cause for the death.
16) Search: a novel
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as she's finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails...
17) Heartburn
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
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"In a touching and funny memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's tells how he became one of Paris's most influential restaurant critics"--
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2022.
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92 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Jasper and Scruff's new diner, Paws Café, is a big success! The place is packed--until Lady Catterly opens her own place, the Sophisticafé, right across the street. Determined not to be outdone, Jasper creates a fancy new menu, hoping to impress famous food critic Gaspard le Skunk. But the Sophisticats have heard about his visit and have cooked up a plan to sabotage the meal..."--
20) Food whore
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Food whore (n.): a person who will do anything for food fresh out of college, Tia Monroe has every intention of taking the New York City restaurant scene by storm. But after a coveted internship goes up in smoke, Tia's suddenly just another food lover in the big city. Everything changes when Michael Saltz, a legendary New York Times restaurant critic, lets Tia in on a career-ending secret: he's lost his sense of taste. Now he wants Tia to serve as...
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