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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage and thinking about starting a family. Then one day she went for a run, and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly died. She lost her sense of smell and the sight in her left eye and was forced to the sidelines of the life she loved. Jessica's journey to recovery began in the kitchen as soon as she was able to stand at the stovetop and stir. There, she drew strength from the restorative power of cooking and baking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful powerful read
- By Amazon Customer on 01-13-24
By: Jessica Fechtor
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Lunch in Paris
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- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman - and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs - one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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ok to pass the time
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By: Elizabeth Bard
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Meet Your Baker
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun Culinary Cozy
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By: Ellie Alexander
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The Bride Wore Chocolate
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- By: Shirley Jump
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Life couldn't be more perfect for Candace Woodrow. Her gourmet gift basket company is thriving, and she's set to marry steady, dependable Barry. There's just one wrench in the fairytale. Two weeks before her wedding she wakes up in the wrong man's bed. Candace thinks she'll be able to run out the door and forget all about Michael Vogler, but the Boston millionaire has other plans for the jittery bride.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Author Wore Prejudice
- By Terri on 12-19-19
By: Shirley Jump
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A Taste of Sage
- A Novel
- By: Yaffa S. Santos
- Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia - she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a single mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she decides to take a chance and puts her heart and savings into opening a fusion restaurant in Inwood, Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines that have been a source of culinary inspiration to her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great summer read!
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By: Yaffa S. Santos
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Pies and Prejudice
- Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series #1
- By: Ellery Adams
- Narrated by: C. S. E Cooney
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 427
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flaky crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the people who eat them, and the public is hungry for more. Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae makes her own wish come true by opening the Charmed Pie Shoppe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real treat!
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By: Ellery Adams
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Toast
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- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4 out of 5 stars 56
Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes listeners on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry (rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits), we are transported.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nigel Slater is fabulous!
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By: Nigel Slater
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The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.
Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.
Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I so want to give it 5 stars...!!!!
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The Christmas Pearl
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Celia Weston
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 362
Theodora is the matriarch of a family that, in her opinion, has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. They've all come together to South Carolina to celebrate Christmas. But this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey Christmases Theodora grew up with.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Never too old to learn or to love
- By Debbie on 12-20-13
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Jane of Austin
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- By: Hillary Manton Lodge
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
This hip contemporary romance combines Jane Austen-inspiration and foodie fiction in a witty and engaging tale of two sisters who are forced to uproot to unfamiliar Austin, Texas, after high rent and broken relationships force them away from their San Francisco life. In this Sense and Sensibility adaptation, Jane Woodward and her sister Celia run a small tea salon in San Francisco but are forced to relocate to Austin, Texas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this story, so sweet!
- By BrontCO on 08-26-17
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How to Bake a Perfect Life
- A Novel
- By: Barbara O'Neal
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 135
In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters - and the healing magic of homemade bread. Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at 15 and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Listen...
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By: Barbara O'Neal
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,471
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,218
Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother. But when tragedy pushes the family out of India, they console themselves by eating their way around the world, eventually settling in Lumière, a small village in the French Alps.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great details & writing in a flawed story
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
In Barbara O’Neal’s novel of hope and renewal, two very different sisters discover that life is like a garden: Tend to it daily, nourish it with patience and optimism, and then watch the beauty unfold. After tragedy shatters her small community in Seattle, the Reverend Elsa Montgomery has a crisis of faith. Returning to her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, she seeks work in a local soup kitchen. Preparing nourishing meals for folks in need, she keeps her hands busy while her heart searches for understanding. Meanwhile, her sister, Tamsin, as colorful as Elsa is unadorned and steadfast, finds her perfect life shattered when she learns that her husband is a criminal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spiritually Stunted
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Death al Dente
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- By: Leslie Budewitz
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 112
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The town of Jewel Bay, Montana - known as a Food Lovers' Village - is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies. But Erin's freshly booming business might go rotten when a former employee turns up dead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Four and a half stars
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Notes on a Banana
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finished it in a day!
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Catering to Nobody
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Even though working a wake isn’t Goldy Bear’s idea of fun, the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast featuring Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. Her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered … until her former father-in-law, gynecologist Fritz Korman, is struck down—and Goldy is accused of adding poison to the menu.
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3 out of 5 stars
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So, so bad...and yet...
- By Scarlett on 10-16-14
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- Carla Neely
- 02-06-22
Beautiful
Started slow, almost stopped listening, but so happy I didn’t give up. Beautiful characters. Loved it!
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- Tammy D'Adamo
- 08-06-24
Very enjoyable
I read others reviews before starting this book and a concern was character development. I looked at it from a different perspective… when meeting new people, you only get slices of the life they lived and the journey they’re on going forward.
I love the narrator and found the book enjoyable.
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- LMS
- 08-11-19
Yummy!
A feast for literary and culinary senses! I wasn't ready for it to end! ❤
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- Ellin Loveless
- 03-07-21
Do Not Miss!!!
This is delightful.... whether you are a cook or just thinking about that as a possibility....or you just like to eat!
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- Amy
- 06-11-23
Lovely book
Enjoyable to listen to. Beautifully performed. Heartfelt back stories that give you all the feels.
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- shirley vanscoyk
- 06-13-24
Adequate
I really wanted to like this book because I really like cooking and I’m very emotional about cooking. But the breathy narrative in a voice, not quite to the point of engaging and the slightly skewed descriptive phrases made this book ordinary, and I was hoping for so much more
It’s a great book for right before you go to sleep. I was never curious about what was going to happen because it just seemed to grow on smoothly with not much action. I guess it’s kind of a character development story just not my cup of tea nor my scone
If you’re looking for something that’s soothing like a warm flatter washcloth this might be just what you need
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- Wilsop
- 10-12-20
Excellent
As an exuberant home cook I loved all the descriptions of food in this book and the sensitivity it brought to the story.
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- Jenny C
- 02-11-23
I loved it!
Beautifully written. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book that I never wanted to end.
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- W. Michigan Retiree
- 06-19-23
Similar to No Two Alike
I completed No Two Alike, so I search for other novels by this author. These two books are quite similar except for one is cooking and the other is a book. This disappointed me a bit. Was thinking, previously, that I might like to read more by this author, but now not so sure….
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