Delicious! Ingredients:
·
1 cup girl with a palette so discerning it
can identify every ingredient in a dish and know just what else it needs
·
½ cup insider gossip about magazines like the
late, great Gourmet
·
1 brimming cup of a handsome, witty man known
as “the Complainer”
·
½ cup sumptuous hidden library of culinary
history
·
½ cup World War II mystery/romance revelation
·
¼ cup prejudice toward Italians during the
war effort
·
¾ cup view of delectable New York bakeries,
delicatessens and restaurants
·
1 splash of James Beard and his imagined
World War II correspondence
·
A pinch of an epistolary novel in the daily emails
the heroine sends her sister
·
Several dashes of humor
· Recipes including one for the celebrated gingerbread cake
Twenty-one-year-old
Billie Breslin, the girl with the uncanny palette, leaves California and
college for New York and a dream job at Delicious!,
a Gourmet-like magazine. She misses
her sister Genie and emails her every day describing her new life. She also
works weekends at a quintessential New York gourmet delicatessen. When the
magazine abruptly closes, Billie is kept on to field the Delicious! recipe guarantee and she finds a trove of WWII letters
from a 12-year-old Akron girl to James Beard hidden in a secret room behind the
magazine’s locked library. Puzzles
abound as Billie falls for a shop customer known affectionately as “the
complainer.”
Summing
it Up: Delicious won’t be nominated for a Pulitzer but it’s the kind of
romp you enjoy for what it is - a simple, uncomplicated gingerbread cake of a
romantic treat that isn’t meant to be a deconstructed masterpiece. You don’t care that it’s a bit predictable
because you like the characters, cheer for the romance, and above all you absolutely
adore the recipes and insider foodie information. It makes you want to head to the nearest
Italian deli to find your own romantic stranger then cook a gourmet
meal.
Mother’s
Day Alert: If your Mom still keeps her
copies of “Gourmet” or “Bon Appetit” and adored Meryl Streep as
Julia Child then this is absolutely the best non-edible gift you can give her
this year. P.S. You will probably read it yourself BEFORE you wrap it.
Rating: 4 stars
Category:
Dessert, Fiction, Grandma’s Pot Roast
Publication
date: May 6, 2014
What
Others are Saying:
Publishers
Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4000-6962-0
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