Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsclass differences / Contemporary / cooking / gentrification / Harlequin / New-Jersey / POC / POC author / Puerto Rican / restaurantsNo Comments
It’s hard to remain enemies when you’ve broken bread together Val Navarro’s first mistake: going out dancing after a bad breakup when the chef should be focused on her family business. Her second mistake? Thinking the handsome, sensitive stranger she meets could be more than a rebound – until she ... more >
MiscAtlanta / Australia / food / koala / news / restaurants5 Comments
To borrow HM The Queen’s description of 1992, this year has been an “annus horibilis” But let’s find some good news to try and counteract that. DC restauranter gets back after giving for seven years – Since he opened his restaurant in 2013, Kazi Mannan has followed the example his ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsChef / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / family relationships / literary adaptation / omniscient voice / restaurants / Scotland / second chance at love4 Comments
Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion. She returned to save her family’s dying legacy–but found the ghosts of her past alive and well. Susan Napier’s family once lived on the success of the high-end restaurants founded by her late grandfather. But bad luck and worse management has brought the business to ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Dashiell Hammett / detective fiction / Philip K. Dick / restaurants / Twitter Lite3 Comments
Barnes & Noble continues Kitchen openings – I initially missed this story (h/t Nate Hoffelder) that Barnes & Noble is quite seriously getting into the restaurant business. In some ways I appreciate the dogged determination to make their business work (and the money they seem to have to take these ... more >