The Recipe Box (Thorndike Perss Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Lee, Sandra

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9781410463319: The Recipe Box (Thorndike Perss Large Print Basic)

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ISBN 10: 1410463311 ISBN 13: 9781410463319

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2013

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After her best friend loses her battle with cancer, Grace D'Angelo moves back home to New London, Wisconsin where she reconnects with friends and family and re-discovers the healing power of cooking.

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About the Author:

SANDRA LEE is an Emmy-winning and internationally acclaimed expert in all things kitchen and home. She has predicted and changed the trajectory of American lifestyle with her signature ''smart and simple'' philosophy. She is the host of Food Network's Sandra's Money Saving Meals and Semi-Homemade Cooking, a veteran program on the network in its fifteenth season, as well as the host of HGTV's Sandra Lee Celebrates, a series of holiday primetime specials. Sandra has launched several lines of home, garden, and craft products and produced a successful DIY home improvement series. Her new home products line, Sandra by Sandra Lee, launched at Sears and Kmart in spring 2012. Since 2002 Sandra has written more than twenty cookbooks and a memoir, Made from Scratch, which all together have sold over four million copies.

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In Food Network personality Lee’s literary debut, Grace Holm-D’Angelo struggles to juggle her role as a single mother to a rebellious teenage daughter, Emma, and her career as a stylist for a popular television show. After her best friend succumbs to breast cancer, Grace returns to her Wisconsin hometown, where she must confront the demons of her past in order to mend her relationship with her own mother, and rediscovers her passion for cooking. Meanwhile, Grace hesitantly begins dating for the first time since her divorce. Lee’s writing is more tell than show and heavy-handed with moral messages, but her straightforward style and humorous dialogue allow the plot to move along at a pleasantly zippy pace. Emma’s transformation from partying class-skipper to straitlaced, A+ student happens far too easily, but interactions between her and Grace feel genuine. Lee’s original recipes, scattered throughout, enhance the narrative and allow the reader to form a visceral connection to this foodcentric narrative. Undoubtedly, Lee’s well-established fan base will flock to this novel. --Emily Roth

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