women cooks

A young Arabic woman living with her uncle in Los Angeles falls in love with a man who appreciates her Middle Eastern cuisine.

Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria owner Eleanor Swift, having entered Laughing Luigi's pizza-making contest with the hope of winning twenty-five thousand dollars to renovate her business, realizes she will have to do more than make a delicious pizza to win after finding Luigi murdered with a slice of poisoned pizza and suspecting she and Maddy may be the next victims.

Pastry chef Elisabeth Page has always struggled to fulfill her successful family's expectations, but when a new, life-changing career opportunity falls into her lap, along with a beer-drinking basketball coach, she decides it's time to start living life for herself and jumps into the unknown, hoping to find the happiness she has been searching for.

Sixty-five-year-old Framboise Simon, hiding her true identity, returns to the small town of her youth where she opens a cafe and discovers, hidden in her mother's book of recipes, the true story of the terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades earlier--an event that resulted in her mother being driven from the village.

Falling in love conjures up old memories and reflections on ethnic identity for a thirty-nine-year-old Arab-American woman in Los Angeles whose only passion heretofore has been the culinary arts.

When chef and restaurateur Lillian starts hosting a monthly cooking class on Monday nights, her eight students begin to learn about food and each other while being personally transformed by new insights and friendships as rich as the dishes they create in the kitchen.

Rosa Fiore, a Sicilian woman with an amazing talent for cooking, deals twice with tragic love and loss and learns about life and sensuality through her culinary art.

Maddy Cartwright is shocked to hear her kindly old neighbor has left a sizable fortune to his dog Brutus and named Maddy executor of the trust, but when a greedy relative tries to claim the fortune, Maddy must turn to handsome lawyer Tom O'Brien for help, a move that proves life does not always go according to plan when they fall in love.

Sixty-five-year-old Framboise Simon, hiding her true identity, returns to the small town of her youth where she opens a cafe and discovers, hidden in her mother's book of recipes, the true story of the terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades earlier--an event that resulted in her mother being driven from the village.

The author provides a memoir of her childhood, family, and being a part of a large family in Delhi, India; along with a collection of tradition Indian recipes.