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Cook the books
No, not your tax returns. These three new books feature evocative recipes.
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness (National Geographic) by Sasha Martin, a popular food blogger, combines a poignant memoir about her childhood with her four-year quest to cook a meal from each of the globe's 195 countries.
Little Beach Street Bakery (William Morrow) by Jenny Colgan (Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe) is a romantic-comic novel about a heartbroken young woman who changes her life by moving to Cornwall and working at a bakery.
Picnic in Provence: A Memoir With Recipes (Little, Brown) by Elizabeth Bard (Lunch in Paris) continues the story of an American woman who met and married a Frenchman in Paris. In this book, just before their baby is born, they move to the French countryside.
Colette Bancroft, Times book editor