Food and Drink

Apr192020 by Free eBookNo Comments

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

Contemporary, Fiction, Food and Drink, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Young Adult

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid eBook Download His whole life has been mapped out for him… Carlos Portillo has always led a privileged and sheltered life. A dual citizen of Mexico and the US, he lives in Mexico City with his wealthy family, where he attends an elite international school. Always a rule follower and a parent pleaser, Carlos is more than happy to tread the well-worn path in front of him. He has always loved food and cooking, but his parents see it as just a hobby. When his older brother, Felix—who has dropped out of college to live a life of travel—is tragically killed, Carlos begins hearing his brother’s voice, giving him advice and pushing him to rebel against his father’s plan for him. Worrying about his mental health, but knowing the voice is right, Carlos runs aw...

Apr192020 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan

Adult, Cultural, Fiction, Food and Drink

The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan eBook Download A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, yet tragic, history. When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor’s family has run for three generations--hasn’t changed. Zod, Noor’s father, is still at the café’s helm, a much-loved patriarch offering laughter, solace, and nourishment to the makeshift family of regulars and waiters who call Café Leila home. With her discontented, very American teenage daughter, Lily, reluctantly at her side, Noor struggles to maintain a semblance of family life. But ...

Apr192020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King

Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical, Historical Fiction

Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King eBook Download Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond measure, obsessed with a taste for fine meals from exotic places, and a singular ambition: to serve as culinary advisor to Caesar, an honor that will cement his legacy as Rome's leading epicure. Apicius rightfully believes that Thrasius is the key to his culinary success, and with Thra...

Apr122020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen

Autobiography, Biography, Food and Drink, Memoir, Nonfiction

Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen eBook Download A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining and back again in search of her culinary roots. Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City s finest kitchens for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten she grew up in a northern Minnesota town home to the nation s largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking pulsed with joy, family drama, and an overabundance of butter. Inspired by her grandmother s tales of cooking on the family farm, Thielen moves with her artist husband to the rustic, off-the-g...

Apr82020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

Audiobook, Autobiography, Food and Drink, Memoir, Nonfiction

Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker eBook Download For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilarious journey through the world of wine. Like many of us, tech reporter Bianca Bosker saw wine as a way to unwind at the end of a long day, or a nice thing to have with dinner and that was about it. Until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world in which people could, after a single sip of wine, identify the grape it was made from, in what year, and where it was produced down to the exact location, within acres. Where she tasted wine, these people detected not only complex flavor profiles, but entire histories and geographies. Astounded by their fanatical dedication and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, Bosk...

Apr32020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave

Abandoned, Adult, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Food and Drink, Womens Fiction

Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave eBook Download From Laura Dave—the author of the “addictive” (Us Weekly), “winning” (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes—comes a new novel about the secrets we keep…even from ourselves. Sunshine Mackenzie has it all…until her secrets come to light. Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream—she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. And then she gets hacked. When Sunshine’s secrets are revealed, her fall from grace is catastrophic. She loses the husband, her show, the fans, and her apartment. She’s forced to return to the childhood home—and the estranged sister—she’s tried hard to forget. But what Sunshine does a...

Apr32020 by Free eBookNo Comments

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro

Biography, Food and Drink, History, Nonfiction

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro eBook Download "Fascinating." Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal “Mouthwatering.”—Eater.com A beloved culinary historian’s short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking—what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, wo...

Apr12020 by Free eBookNo Comments

Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes Cookbook by Emma Watson

Cooking, Food and Drink, Health

Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes Cookbook by Emma Watson eBook Download An Instant Pot comes with lots of benefits. It is just a single kitchen device but it is able to cover the work of many other devices: pressure cooker, rice cooker, steamer, saute-pan, yogurt-maker etc. The stainless steel interior of each Instant Pot is perfect for cooking. No other materials (like plastic ot Teflon) are touching the food except the stainless steel. It’s also very easy to clean. Compared to a slow cooker or a crock pot, the Instant Pot is much faster and efficient. For example, an 8 hour slow cooker dinner recipe will be ready in just 40 minutes when using the Instant Pot. And the programmable features of each Instant Pot make this device the best gadget that can be found in each kitchen. T...

Mar82020 by adminNo Comments

Ritz and Escoffier by Luke Barr

Biography, Cultural, Food and Drink, History, Nonfiction

Ritz and Escoffier by Luke Barr eBook Download In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier Cesar Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn the modern luxury hotel and restaurant, where women and American Jews mingled with British high society, signaling a new social order and the rise of the middle class. In early August 1889, Cesar Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come at the request of Richard D'Oyly Carte, the financier of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had modernized theater and was now ...

Mar62020 by adminNo Comments

Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian

Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Food and Drink, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Young Adult

Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian eBook Download A summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream. Summer in Sand Lake isn’t complete without a trip to Meade Creamery—the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while all the boys were away at war. Since then, the stand has been owned and managed exclusively by local girls, who inevitably become the best of friends. Seventeen-year-old Amelia and her best friend Cate have worked at the stand every summer for the past three years, and Amelia is “Head Girl” at the stand this summer. When Molly passes away before Amelia even has her first day in charge, Amelia isn’t sure that the stand can go on. That is, until Molly’s grandnephew Grady arrives and asks Ame...