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APRIL 4, 2010

Books Good Enough to Eat

Our main book display this month features books with a cooking theme. Included in the mix you'll find a healthy sampling of culinary mysteries. Who dunnits peppered with recipes instead of bullets, they are a popular genre. But does anyone really make the cookies, cakes, muffins, pies, appetizers, entrees, etc. that grace these pages. You might be surprised to hear that the answer is yes.

Our library assistant Mercedes, swears by the cookie and other just desserts found in Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swenson series and staff can attest that the results are divine. She finds the stories good, clean fun, the recipes yummy, and easy to make, a winning combination all around.

click here for Mocha Nut Butterballs, a tasty sample of Joanne's Murdershebaked cookies!

Another good friend has been finding inspiration from culinary tales for years. She literally eats up these titles, the mysteries as well as main stream fiction with good food served up.

How about you? Have you ever tried a recipe you found in one of our fiction titles? If not, get cooking with one of the following or a pick from our display.

Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swenson Mysteries starting with
The Chocolate Chip Cooke Murder

Diane Mott Davidson's Goldie Bear Catering Mysteries starting with
Catering to Nobody

Katharine Hall Page's Faith Fairchild Mysteries starting with
The Body in the Belfry

Some other authors you can try

Claudia Bishop
Philip Craig
Tamar Myers

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Mercedes said, on Apr. 13 at 3:45PM
I just finished Apple Turnover Murder, Fluke's latest edition to her series and I can't wait to try some of the recipes. I never used to like making cookies but Fluke's recipes are easy and so tasty that I can't help myself! I'll be bringing in something yummy soon!

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said, on Apr. 16 at 6:38AM
Im a fan of food books in the non-fiction genre.Just read and enjoyed Molly Wizenberg's A Home made Life... a mixture of family history and tradition around food, vignettes and the actual recipes made it informative and endearing

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CarolK said, on Apr. 16 at 7:25AM
I wasn't familiar with this one...but it does sound like a good addition to memoirs and the food genre. I'm adding it to our May order so it will be available in our library soon.