{"product_id":"the-love-goddess-cooking-school-9781439107232","title":"The Love Goddess' Cooking School","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSee Jane Date\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e comes a charming, warm-hearted story about a woman's search for happiness after inheriting her grandmother's cooking school.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Holly Maguire inherits \"Camilla's Cucinotta,\" her late grandmother's home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isn't a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess, whose secret sauces had aphrodisiac properties and whose kitchen table fortune-telling often came true. Holly, a broken-hearted thirty-year-old who's never found her niche, can barely cook at all. But she's determined to keep her beloved grandmother's legacy alive. Armed with Camilla's hand-scrawled recipe book, Holly welcomes her students: apprentice Mia, a twelve-year-old desperate to learn to cook Italian to stop her divorced father from marrying his ditzy girlfriend; Juliet, Holly's childhood friend grieving for her newborn--and the marriage she left behind on the mainland; Simon, struggling to be an every-other-weekend dad to his young son after his wife left him; and Tamara, a single thirty-something yearning for love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMixing fervent wishes and bittersweet memories with simmering sauces and delectable Italian dishes, Holly and the students of \u003ci\u003eThe Love Goddess' Cooking School\u003c\/i\u003e create their own recipes for happiness and become masters of their own fortunes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439107232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.40w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 50 - Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Melissa Senate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095609544885,"sku":"9781439107232","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ebfa661f-bf1e-45b0-8828-0341e566f743.jpg?v=1651588150","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-love-goddess-cooking-school-9781439107232","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}