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1) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. 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...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the home of Cook's Country, a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen, a live audience, two barns, and the odd neighbor who stops by with cooking problems that need immediate attention. Join host Christopher Kimball and your favorite chefs from America's Test Kitchen. This set contains all 13 episodes from Season 2 of Cook's Country.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the home of Cook's Country, a renovated 1806 farmhouse with a full working test kitchen, a live audience, two barns, and the odd neighbor who stops by with cooking problems that need immediate attention. Join host Christopher Kimball and your favorite chefs from America's Test Kitchen as they turn their no-nonsense approach to cooking to the American repertoire, turning bad food into great food through careful testing.
Series
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This special collection presents 18 episodes from Julia's groundbreaking series. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as crêpes suzette, omelette gratinée, pâté de campagne, bûche de Noël and many more.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight people from different walks of life who gather every Monday night for a cooking class taught by Lillian, a famous chef whose alchemy in the kitchen has made her a local sensation. It soon becomes clear, however, that each student--including a teenage waitress, a young mother, a widower, and a long-married couple--comes seeking a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. One by one they...
14) Chicks and salsa
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Soon after the chickens tire of their feed and decide to make tortilla chips and salsa, all the other animals on Nuthatcher Farm start to crave southwestern cuisine.
16) Comfort food
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tiring of playing the hostess as her fiftieth birthday approaches, celebrity chef Augusta Simpson tries to distance herself from her overly dependent loved ones and receives assistance from handsome fellow chef Oliver in her efforts to launch an on-air cooking class.
17) Deep dish
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Cooking Channel is looking for its next big star, and Gina is certain that she fits the bill. Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. "Kill It and Grill It" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show named Vittles. Tate is the ultimate man's man, with a dog named Moonpie and a penchant for flannel shirts. He's also a tasty side of beef with a swooning female fan base. All Gina has on her side are a free-spirited, college-dropout...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gjelina is Los Angeles's most talked-about restaurant, lauded by critics from London to New York to San Francisco and beloved by stars, locals, and out-of-towners alike for its seductive simplicity and eclectic Cal-Med menu from talented chef Travis Lett. This standout cookbook features 125 of the rustic and utterly delicious salads, toasts, pizzas, vegetable and grain dishes, pastas, fish and meat mains, and desserts that have had fans clamoring...
Author
Series
Candy Holliday murder mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Everyone in town is working frantically for the annual Lobster Stew Cook-Off, the most important event of the year. Mr. Sedley had given elderly Wilma Mae the secret recipe for the award-winning lobster stew with the explicit instruction to hide it carefully. Wilma Mae swears she did exactly that, but now the recipe is missing! Candy, the unofficial town sleuth, decides she'll search for the recipe. But instead of finding a recipe for the stew, she...