* Blessed are the Cheesemakers *

by Sarah-Kate Lynch

* Lessons in Chemistry *

by Bonnie Garmus

* Only in Naples, Lessons in food and famiglia *

by Katherine Wilson

This warm and witty memoir follows a young American woman who moves to Naples and finds herself drawn into the rhythms of an Italian family, discovering that food, love and famiglia are inseparable in Neapolitan life.

* Butter *

by Asako Yuzuki

Our next food themed novel takes us to Japan were we meet a female gourmet cook / serial killer and a journalist intend on cracking her case – This book has become a modern cult classic and is expertly translated by Polly Barton.

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* Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe *

by Fannie Flagg

We loved the film! However, the book has so much more to offer. It is an endearing and affecting novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder….

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