Food Fiction

After saving her family farm from falling into disrepair Framboise, a secretive widow, lives a quiet life splitting her time between home and the creperie where she brings her mother's recipes to life. When her nephew approaches her to exploit her family's culinary legacy, Framboise is forced to confront her dramatic childhood at the heart of the German Occupation of France.

Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral.

My story is about the Chappel Brothers Corporation, (CBC) and the hundreds of thousands of wild horses their cowboys caught and branded, from 1927 - 1938, on the open range in Eastern Montana. The book is historical fiction based on true facts. To tell how it happened, I have created several fictional characters based on the actual men that did the gathering, branding, and shipping of the thousands of horses they gathered. I have also used some names and stories of people that were involved with the CBC.

Montana, as far from the ocean as you can get. No lobster anywhere close, and my specialty is lobster risotto. Could this be any worse? I checked, Angelo was right. The building he found in Billings really was the only one that was in our budget and didn't need a ton of work. I would just have to make due with shrimp risotto. Frozen lobster just isn't good, it definitely isn't good enough to serve at our restaurant. Frozen shrimp isn't great either, but it was a whole lot better than frozen lobster. When you're in a land-locked state in the center of the country, there's not a lot you can ...

A sadistic killer has come to Long Lakes . . . After the harrowing events of the past summer, Valentina Bianco is happy to take it easy, working on her wine importing business and enjoying the beauty of her Eastern Tennessee cabin, Elsewhere. With her boyfriend and FBI agent Jack Erikson all the way across the state, working an important case, she’s content to have a quiet few weeks ahead of her. But all is not quiet in idyllic Long Lakes. A new resident has moved into the gated community, a famous actor hiding from his past. He has secrets, and they’re about to catch up with him. From ...

Marriage is no picnic. At least the one Vivian Emerson shared with her late husband hadn’t been. Unfortunately, the devastation Craig had brought into her life didn’t end with his death. Not only did he leave Vivian without closure, he had to go and die in a way that made her the talk of the whole state of South Carolina and beyond. Now her daughter wants nothing to do with her because of him. She would just stick with the single life from now on, thank you very much. For the last fourteen years since the death of his wife, Bo Manning never even considered wanting another woman in his ...

Link up with Max Axiom to learn about the world's coolest webs, food chains, and energy pyramids! Young listeners will unravel the complex systems that keep the world fed.

A collection of stories: The Possessed Printer Blues: A woman buys a printer at a yard sale. The Long Day Sun: A photography student helps out a friend. Savory Taro Pudding: A short nightmare based on true events. Billionaire Babies: It turns out you can't trust billionaires. Bath Salts Vampire: Teen girls with low self-esteem + a drug dealer who thinks he's an ancient vampire. What could go wrong?

Letting go of a lifetime of hurts isn’t easy. It’s pretty hard to believe that Happy Ever After even exists. Can Carol let go of the past and move on to the future with a handsome chef whose intentions are an open book? It’s pretty clear to everyone but Carol that he’s in love with her. It’s also pretty clear to everyone that Carol has some issues she needs to overcome before she can take the first step to Midlife happiness. A Maltese puppy and good friends who conspire with the chef just might make everything possible. But then again, whoever said life will go smoothly and just ...

A psychic, a fashion gala and the death of a runway model. This is not what Boutique owner, Rosa de los Reyes hoped for when she organized the Colten Island Fashion Show. To save the gala and stop the killer from striking again, Rosa must use her psychic abilities, sift through the gossip at La Misteriosa Café and navigate increasing danger all while racing against the clock. Will Rosa, her familiar Raul, and Las Cubanitas find the truth before the murderer kills again? Recipes included:

"My Irish grandfather, Thomas Lawrence Downey, was a great storyteller. I never tired of sitting on his knee - and later, when I was a bit too big, sitting at his feet with one of my baby sisters on his knee - listening to his wonderful tall tales. Among the stories I loved the best were the ones about the Irish - and the Downey family in particular. In those tales, I'm afraid, 'dramatic flair' and artistic liberties took over for fact. But as any good storyteller knows, to embellish is to make the tale interesting, especially to a young Tomie."

England 1835. Eliza Acton is a poet who dreams of seeing her words in print. But when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she’s told that ‘poetry is not the business of a lady’. Instead, they want her to write a cookery book. That’s what readers really want from women. England is awash with exciting new ingredients, from spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. Eliza leaves the offices appalled. But when her father is forced to flee the country for bankruptcy, she has no choice but to consider the proposal.

The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.

A settant'anni suonati, dopo aver passato oltre un ventennio a raccogliere, e provare (!), le tante ricette regionali, Artusi pubblica "La Scienza in cucina e l'Arte di mangiar bene", destinato a diventare una vera e propria bibbia popolare. Spartiacque nella cultura gastronomica italiana, ha subito conquistato, con la sua prosa limpida e vivace e i gustosi aneddoti, un posto nei cuori, nelle biblioteche e nelle cucine dell’intero paese. Con questo titolo debutta la collana AudioCook a cura di Luisanna Messeri, talentuosa scrittrice e volto amato della cucina in tv. Ospite fisso alla Prova del Cuoco, dove sforna con vulcanica allegria piatti ispirati alla grande tradizione nostrana.

For the Nameless Restaurant, once a discreet hole-in-the-wall meant for a cast of supernatural regulars, the increasing levels of background magic has brought with it that most dreadful of locusts—new customers. The staff of the Nameless Restaurant are finding the influx of new customers—both mortal and magical—to be a challenge. They're reaching a breaking point, and something has to give. The only question is, will it be Mo Meng's rules on magic or the restaurant itself?

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old Miles—a chance to learn about his family’s roots while coming to terms with his father’s departure—but it’s also an excuse for Genevieve to escape the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America.

Elizabeth is helping her friend, Anuska, forage for Yupik potatoes in the Alaskan tundra. To help her find the hidden potatoes, Anuska teaches her a trick—look for the trails the mice make. Will she be able to find her first potato?

Shelf Death by Mit Namzo Dive into the darkly whimsical world of Shelf Death, a gripping and imaginative eBook that transforms an ordinary supermarket into an epic battleground of sentient groceries. In the fluorescent-lit aisles of Grimley’s Supermarket, where the doors lock and the lights dim, a hidden war rages. Canned goods, fresh produce, frozen foods, and processed snacks—each faction fights for dominance, driven by survival, pride, and the cold gaze of the Algorithm, a profit-obsessed AI that tallies every move. At the heart of this chaos is Tommy the Tomato, a pacifist dreamer ...

Far too young to be a widow, Angelina D’Angelo suddenly finds herself facing a life without her beloved husband, Frank. Late one night shortly after the funeral, she makes her way down to the kitchen and pours all of her grief and anger into the only outlet she has left - her passion for cooking.

This is a compendium of thesis that talk about different topics such as: Stargates, dimensions, ghosts, demons, incredible technology, the Anunnaki Gods of the Bible, human creation, the Universe, Terra Infinita, the Superdome, beings from other planets, the Draconian and Reptilian Captors of Earth, the melting of the Colossal Ice Wall, the Archons and Ancestral Humans, the Sons of Anak, the Holographic Simulation known as Reality, the resets of the Earth, Satan, the Scarlett Dragon, Ancient Avatars, the Avatar of God, etc.