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Ruth Reichl

Delicious!

Paperback (Appetite by Random House May 12, 2015)
Ruth Reichl's bestselling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, gourmet food, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts is a dazzling addition to Reichl's beloved memoirs that have long illuminated the theme of how food defines us. Billie Breslin has travelled far from her California home to take a job at Delicious!, the most iconic food magazine in New York. When the publication is summarily shut down, Billie is offered a new job: staying behind in the magazine's deserted downtown mansion offices to uphold the "Delicious Guarantee"--a public relations hotline for complaints and recipe inquiries--until further notice. What she doesn't know is that this boring, lonely job will be the portal to a life-changing discovery. Delicious! carries the reader to the colourful world of downtown New York, from the lively food shop in Little Italy where Billie works on weekends to a hidden room in the magazine's library where she discovers the letters of Lulu Swan, a plucky twelve-year-old, who wrote to the legendary chef James Beard during World War II. Lulu's courage in the face of loss inspires Billie to come to terms with her own issues--the panic attacks that occur every time she even thinks about cooking, the truth about the big sister she adored, and her ability to open her heart to love.
ISBN
0449016528 / 9780449016527
Pages
416
Weight
10.6 oz.
Dimensions
5.2 x 0.8 in.

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