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Reckless Appetites: A Culinary Romance

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the story is cute but not great...the book is very, very good

The references to food, the recipes, the dialogue...very good. I wish she would write another like it...

makes me want to read lots of stuff she quoted plus try the recipes. I didn't hink anyone else was so passionate as I am on this subject (literature and food and love and writing and reading)

I have been waiting for years now for another novel from this author!
I really enjoyed her subtle and slightly obscured story telling.
I have read this several times and even tried some of the recipes.

I love to read and I love to cook but I found this book self-impressed and not too good a read. The concept - unique, the execution dry and the story doesn't work too well. Some interest in the recipes of so many famous writers but the book tries too hard.

Deval did her research but it's as if the novel's characters of Pomme, Pomme's lovers and chef-father were just a vehicle to hang her academic research upon. She gave it a title with passion but no sparks here!

A fan of culinary mysteries, I was pretty psyched when I found my first culinary romance at a booksale. I am glad I found it at booksale prices however, the story just was not worth my time.

The story of Pomme an aspiring chef who fashions her own life after some of histories best authors. This leads to the best part of the book- her recipes. Taken from classic memoirs, letters and cookbooks the recipes are outstanding, but to me recipes alone cannot make the story more than a two.