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Series
Like water for chocolate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Romantic and poignant tale of family life and cultural traditions in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. From the Vikings, who pursued the codfish across the Atlantic, and the enigmatic Basques, who first commercialized it in medieval times, to Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602, and Clarence Birdseye, who founded an industry on frozen cod in the 1930s, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and of course the fishermen, whose lives have interwoven with this prolific...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A wealthy dual citizen of Mexico and the United States rebels against his family's strict plans for his future in the aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, an event that compels him to secure a job with his favorite celebrity chef, a relationship that becomes complicated when he falls for his boss's daughter.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Junie, Celia, and Danielle, three ethnically diverse high schoolers in Brooklyn, form a friendship while cooking dinners together and helping one another sort through their romantic entanglements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelera next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her mom and dad have different plans-leaving Pen to choose between disappointing her traditional Mexican American parents or following her own path. When she confesses a secret she's been keeping, her world is sent into a tailspin. But then she meets a cute new hire at Nacho's who sees through her hard exterior and asks the questions...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"...
11) Salt and Sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process"--
12) Stuffed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Ian decides to take a stand against a fast-food multinational.
13) My fine fellow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate--and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries...
14) Cub
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the gay community, a young, husky man is known as a "cub" Seventeen-year-old Theo fits the definition perfectly, but he is very self-conscious about his body. So when his best friend signs him up for a cooking competition at Heat, the city's newest trendy restaurant, Theo is nervous. He's confident in his baking ability, and dreams of opening his own bakery one day, but he's not a chef, and he hates being in the spotlight.
As Theo survives round...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes recipes from the story.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked.
20) Small damages
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kenzie of Philadelphia, pregnant by Yale-bound Kevin, is bitter when her mother sends her to Spain to deliver and give her baby away, but discovers a makeshift family with the rancher who takes her in, his cook, and the young man they have raised together.