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English
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"Isabel Johnson returns to Bella Vista to turn her childhood home into a destination cooking school and forget her past, but war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill wants to dig up old history"--
"Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style...
2) The seekers
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Married for eight years with no children to help fill her days, Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But it is a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement. Charlene Higgins is engaged, but to the despair of her fiancé's family, she can't cook. Kendra Perkins, a teen estranged from her family, is facing an unwanted pregnancy alone. Loretta...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team.
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Language
English
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Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students' lives.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Bedelia's class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for the school library. She bakes delicious brownies to sell, but so does everybody else! Fortunately, Amelia Bedelia squints hard and sees the surprise in the brownie bounty, and she and her friends learn about basic concepts of business and the importance of giving back"--
Author
Series
Ever After High.School story volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever After High is a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, and student Ginger Breadhouse, daughter of the Candy Witch, studies all the usual magic subjects--but what she is mostly interested in is making her cooking show, Spells Kitchen, a success by introducing happiness as the secret ingredient.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With summer tourists flocking to Broken Rope, locals volunteer to keep chaos to a minimum. Old West skits are running smoothly, actors are behaving, and wagon rides are more popular than ever. But when a spectral visitor appears by ghost train, it's a job only Betts and Gram can handle. Gram soon starts having nightmares about their ghostly visitor's demise. And if a ghost and the hot summer weather weren't making things sticky enough, one of the...
10) Roux Morgue
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Mary Ryan, San Francisco pastry chef, is happy to be teaching at her old alma mater. But before long, she realizes the teaching staff are at loggerheads with each other. Adding to her dismay, ex-lover and Homicide Detective O'Connor has enrolled as a student, claiming to be on disability from the San Francisco Police Department. In the middle of this turf war, Mary is ordered by dean Robert Benson to force Coolie Martin to leave the school or lose...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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It is time for the school bake-off, with a trip to the Bronx Zoo as a prize, and fourth-grade psychic Krystal Ball and her best friends are making fortune cookies--but when the class bully ruins their contribution, Krystal must use her talents to save the day.
Author
Series
Tuscan cooking school mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell Valenti is offered a chance to move to Tuscany to help transform an aging villa into a farm-to-table cooking school, she eagerly accepts. After all, both her job and her love life in America have been feeling stale. Plus, she'll get the chance to work under the acclaimed Italian Chef Claudio Orlandini. But Nell gets more than she bargained for when she arrives. With only a day to go until the launch dinner for the cooking school, the villa...
13) Bone appetit
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks -- and Faith is determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is a seething cauldron of secrets,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Miss Fox realizes that her students do not have healthy habits, she teaches them that healthful living is fun and rewarding, which they find to be true on Field Day.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
His parents have placed the perpetually hungry Billy on a strict diet--no junk food--and despite the trouble it causes him, it looks like he will be in shape for the annual school jump-a-thon--which is interrupted by a trio of teenage thieves.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Clayton and Desmond work together to try to find the biggest apple for a school contest, but when realize they will not win they find a better use for all of the apples they have collected.
18) Sylvia's Spinach
Author
Publisher
Readers to Eaters
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (36 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Sylvia Spivens always says no to spinach. But one day Sylvia's teacher gives her a packet of spinach seeds to plant for the school garden. Overcoming her initial reluctance and giving the seeds a little love and patience, Sylvia discovers the joy of growing food and the pleasure of tasting something new.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A famous chef is coming to visit Mr. Hopper's second grade class, and every one is excited about bringing in their family's favorite dish to share except Ollie, who loves to cook but cannot find a dish his whole family likes.
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Language
English
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At Gram's Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Betts Winston and Gram are helping students prepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Showdown, a cook-off that draws lots of summer visitors. Then they discover the body of local theater owner Everett Morningside in the school's supply room - and Everett's widow points the finger at Gram. Now Betts must clear Gram's name while keeping the cook-off preparations on schedule - all...