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REVIEW: The Chef’s Choice by Kristin Hardy
Dear Ms. Hardy, I may not be a foodie but I love food as unfortunately my butt shows. I don’t have the greenest thumb yet I can manage to keep plants alive. Usually. Well, at least for a while. So...
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[poll id="123"] This poll comes to us via Jill Myles who twittered a new discovery from Lulu.com. In a remarkably well put together copy is a collection of recipes featuring food made with semen....
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REVIEW: Tipping the Waitress with Diamonds by Nina Harrington
Dear Ms. Harrington, Celebrity chefs and cook off challenges aren’t my passion. I like to cook but hate to clean up so having one hanging around my kitchen to do my scut work for me would be nice,...
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REVIEW: Just Desserts by Scarlet Blackwell
Dear Ms. Blackwell, I hadn’t read an m/m in a while and decided to splurge on this story of one hot Parisian chef who meets his match in a cool English food critic. Luc Tessier is hot tempered,...
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REVIEW: Aftertaste {a novel in five courses} by Meredith Mileti
Dear Ms. Mileti What got me interested in trying your first book is the excerpt you sent us and the opening scene in it. Here is a woman wronged who apparently didn’t take her husband’s betrayal of...
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REVIEW: Hot Under Pressure by Louisa Edwards
Dear Ms. Edwards, I’ve read all three books in your Rising Star Chef series and, of all of the couples in the series, my favorite hands down is Claire Durand and Kane Slater. This, really, is a bummer...
View ArticleReading/Watching/Baking List by Jayne for March and early April
My goodness, it’s been a long time since I wrote my last “what I’ve been reading/watching” post. I know I’ve been bad, bad, bad about this. So with no more excuses, here goes. Reading Lessons in...
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REVIEW: A Taste of Scandal by Erin Knightley
Dear Ms. Knightley: This book is the romance between the Earl of Raleigh, Richard Moore, and Jane Bunting, baker and proprietress of a confectionaire’s shop. Jane has good reason to despise the...
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Thursday News: I’m running away to join the circus (and the indie bookstores...
DRM Lawsuit Filed By Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, ‘Big Six’ Publishers – I think we all know that I am not a fan of DRM. I have also argued repeatedly that getting rid of DRM would reduce...
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REVIEW: Sweet and Sour by Astrid Amara
Right now this novella is on sale at Loose-Id. Sorry, looks like the sale is over. Miles thought he and Itai would make a great team, despite the infidelities haunting their past. After all, Itai is...
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REVIEW: An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey
“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something,...
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REVIEW: The Piano Man Project by Kat French
Finding love isn’t always black and white… Me: blonde, hopelessly romantic charity store manager You: intelligent, kind-hearted, piano-playing Sex God Honey Jones has a problem – she’s never had a...
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Friday News: On Women
Awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich is a bold decision – I like this piece by Arifa Akbar because it focuses on the way Alexievich’s win “recalibrates the status...
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REVIEW: A Taste of Heaven by Penny Watson
“Create one perfect bite.” Good little widow Sophia Brown always follows the rules. When the producer of a cooking competition requests an amuse-bouche, the chefs stick with proteins. Sauces. A savory...
View ArticleReading List by Jayne
Here’s a quick recap of some of my recent reads and ones I’m slowly working on. The Heart – Maylis de Kerangal (translation by Sam Taylor) Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go...
View ArticleREVIEW: Crazy Days of Christmas by Jill Barry
Lucy Stephenson is facing a Christmas nightmare. Her bistro, ‘The Town Mouse’, is in a bad financial way when her sous chef, Emily, drops the bomb that she’s leaving her in the lurch just weeks before...
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REVIEW: Until the Dawn by Elizabeth Camden
A volunteer for the newly established Weather Bureau, Sophie van Riijn needs access to the highest spot in her village to report the most accurate readings. Fascinated by Dierenpark, an abandoned...
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REVIEW: Brain Food by Richard Cornish
Is pork butt the new pork belly? Whose room temperature are we talking about? And can you freeze cheese? (Yes, but why would you want to?) These are some of the burning questions at the heart of every...
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REVIEW: Come Date Me in Paris by Helena Fairfax
Come Date Me in Paris includes some delicious French recipes for you to try out, a delicious French hero (c’est vrai!) and a poodle who steals the entire show. Come Date Me in Paris is the most...
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REVIEW: An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey
“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something,...
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