The Recipe Club - A Novel About Food and Friendship

"Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel have written an absorbing novel that reflects the wisdom of MFK Fisher, namely that there is no separating food and dining from family and friends. . . . A satisfying meal for both body and soul. -- Sara Moulton Loyalty, loss, and the ties that bind: These are the ingredients of The Recipe Club , a "novel cookbook" that combines an authentic story of friendship with more than eighty delicious recipes. Lifelong friends Lilly and Val are united as much by their differences as by their similarities. In childhood, "LillyPad" and "ValPal" form an exclusive two-person club, writing intimate letters in which they share hopes, fears, deepest secrets . . . and recipes--from Lilly''s "Lovelorn Lasagna" to Valerie''s "Forgiveness Tapenade." The Recipe Club sustains Lilly and Val''s bond across the decades: through the challenges of independence, the joys and heartbreaks of first love, and the emotional complexities of family relationships, identity, mortality, and goals deferred--until the fateful day when an act of kindness becomes an unforgivable betrayal.

About the author

Andrea Israel is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and writer and the author of Taking Tea.
Nancy Garfinkel is an award-winning writer, design consultant, creative strategist, and editor, and co-author of The Wine Lover's Guide to the Wine Country.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Garfinkel, Andrea Israel, Andrea/ Garfinkel Israel
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.2010
• EAN: 9780061992292
• ISBN: 978-0-06-199229-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, FICTION: Epistolary (Letters, Diaries, etc.)