When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer plans and put his college ones on hold. He soon finds himself in the most unlikely of places for a jock on crutches: the kitchen of an upscale French restaurant, where he'll work as a prep cook while his heart and leg heal.

But it's in the kitchen where Theo finds new purpose and a new romance. As he becomes a trusted employee to Chef and is welcomed into his inner circle, Theo begins to discover the true costs of running a restaurant--and what happens when you get into hot water with the wrong people.

Set in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1980, If You Can't Take the Heat is a gritty look inside the belly of an upscale kitchen where love and danger boil behind closed doors.

What would you risk to change the recipe of your life?

Seventeen-year-old J'aime McWilliams is a wannabe cook with zero kitchen skills and chef dreams that are bigger than her food pantry ingredients. Food scarcity is real for her; she lives each day not knowing where her next meal is going to come from.

After the death of J'aime's chronically ill mom, and running from debt collectors, her dad drags her from Chicago to Hannaville, Missouri. It's a tiny rural town with a new casino, and they both snag jobs at the Silver Dollar Casino Buffet. J'aime is just a server, so she practices her cooking skills at home. When she burns through her last saucepan, J'aime realizes her chef fantasy requires real chef training. She spots the fierce chopping techniques of eighteen-year-old Robert Rios. Robert's family owns a popular restaurant, but he secretly longs to run his own food truck. Hiding out in an abandoned Home EC room, they invent new recipes, fueling their desire for food (and each other).

To make their chef dreams come true, J'aime suggests they enter a Food Network contest. Taking this step together stirs up chaos and consequences for her and for Robert. J'aime must face hard truths about her family and learn that no matter what life dishes up, we all have the inner-strength to keep our hearts full.

Proceeds from Kitchen of My Heart are donated to national food banks.

Fancy yourself as the next big TV chef?

Perhaps you want to prove to your parents that you can cook just as well as they can... Or maybe you just love food and want to discover the art of cooking.

Whatever the reason you're sniffing out recipe books, there's a reason that you haven't found the right one yet.

You keep finding delicious-looking recipes that you'd love to be able to whip up... but there's a problem. There are all these mysterious new words and techniques standing in your way - and probably a few strange ingredients too.

Most recipe books assume you know how to sauté your onions or sear a steak. But how would you know these techniques if you've never been taught them?

You need a route into cooking that meets you where you are.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Everything you need to know to navigate your way around the kitchen like a pro (know your paring knife from your chef's knife, and discover the secrets of an efficient kitchen)
• A step-by-step guide to measuring ingredients accurately - so your recipes turn out exactly as they're meant to
• Your guide to the cooking techniques you'll need to access any recipe
• Mouthwatering breakfast recipes you'll be able to whip up and impress your friends with every time anyone stays over
• The lunchtime recipes that'll make you never want to eat out or order in again - uncover how to make all your favorite sandwich shop treats
• Fancy snacks and nibbles you can rustle up for parties (but why wait for a party? Treat yourself now!)
• Delicious dips and sauces that will keep you away from sugary, processed alternatives and make you wonder why you ever chose them
• A whole stack of tempting dinner recipes - discover these, and you'll never be one of those kids who goes away to college and longs for their parents' cooking
• Impressive side dishes you can contribute to the thanksgiving spread without anyone doubting your culinary skills
• Cookies and cakes and pies to die for... and everything you need to know to cook them to perfection every time
• And much more.
• Are you still in doubt that you need a cookery book designed specifically for teenagers?
• You're bound to want to jump straight into the complicated stuff... but first you need to master the art of cooking - and that's exactly what you'll be able to do when you've worked your way through this extensive collection of recipes.
• With dishes to suit every taste and occasion, and all the skills you need to execute them with the precision of a professional chef, this book is your gateway to cooking.

You need delicious yet simple recipes that you can be sure you'll pull off, racking up your skills and your culinary knowledge as you go. You need something that gives you a strong foundation so that you can later access any recipe book you feel like trying - and understand what you're meant to do with the ingredients.

You've just found what you're looking for.

This one-of-a-kind recipe book is designed especially for you - a young person who wants to discover the wonderful world of cooking and secure a strong foundation you can build on.

When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he's forced to call an audible on his summer plans and put his college ones on hold. He soon finds himself in the most unlikely of places for a jock on crutches: the kitchen of an upscale French restaurant, where he'll work as a prep cook while his heart and leg heal.

But it's in the kitchen where Theo finds new purpose and a new romance. As he becomes a trusted employee to Chef and is welcomed into his inner circle, Theo begins to discover the true costs of running a restaurant--and what happens when you get into hot water with the wrong people.

Set in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1980, If You Can't Take the Heat is a gritty look inside the belly of an upscale kitchen where love and danger boil behind closed doors.

Eat green on a little green--150 easy, affordable vegetarian recipes for college students

Although you're in college and living on a shoestring budget, you can still eat smart and healthy every day. The College Vegetarian Cookbook makes it cheap and easy to prepare mouthwatering plant-based meals in a snap using farm-fresh legumes, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

From Black Bean Quesadillas to Vegan Bahn Mi Sandwiches, this complete vegetarian cookbook delivers everything you need to get started, including simple shopping lists, ingredients and meal storage tips, and more. In about 30 minutes, you can make and serve delicious, nutritious vegetarian delights that are perfect for your busy college lifestyle--and can even be great to store or share with friends and housemates.

The College Vegetarian Cookbook includes:

• 150 Tasty recipes--Discover dozens of vegetarian dishes that are perfect for college students living on a tight budget.
• Cooking 101--Learn the basics of setting up your kitchen, stocking your pantry with must-have staples, common cooking terms, and more.
• No kitchen, no problem--Many recipes in this vegetarian cookbook are microwave safe or don't need to be cooked at all.

Going plant-based on a small budget is a snap with this all-in-one vegetarian cookbook.

Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical--and makes everyone who eats them break up.

What's done is done.
Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.

Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd's breakup brownies . . . breaks up. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Being dumped is one thing; causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin, it's probably on the messenger bag), believes Syd about the magic baking. And Harley believes Syd's magical baking can fix things, too--one recipe at a time.

It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost. He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time.

It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think: driven. AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations.

When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can't stand.

With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and Oscar's future is anything but certain.

Step into the enchanting world of culinary creativity with Clutter in the Kitchen: Cookbook for Kids by Mehak and Akal Gadh. This cookbook is not just a collection of recipes; it's a vibrant tapestry of flavors, stories, and the joy of cooking designed especially for young talents.

In the heart of their bustling kitchens, Mehak and Akal discovered the magic that happens when chaos and creativity collide. Clutter in the Kitchen celebrates the delightful messiness of exploring the art of cooking. Inspired by the fond memories of their grandmothers' culinary wisdom, the authors invite young chefs to embark on a journey where every spilled ingredient and every laughter-filled mishap becomes a cherished part of the learning process.

This cookbook isn't just about teaching kids how to cook; it's about igniting their passion for the culinary arts and preserving the essence of family traditions. Each page unfolds a world of exciting recipes, from simple snacks to delightful desserts, making the kitchen a playground for budding chefs. As you flip through the pages of Clutter in the Kitchen, you'll discover the ABCs of cooking presented in a way that captures the imagination and enthusiasm of young minds. The authors weave together the joy of experimentation, the thrill of discovery, and the importance of connecting with one's roots through food.

This cookbook is a colorful and engaging journey where young chefs can explore, create, and celebrate the joy of making a mess in the kitchen. Clutter in the Kitchen: Cookbook for Kids is not just a guide to cooking; it's an invitation to embrace the chaos, savor the flavors, and share in the delight of creating culinary masterpieces. Let this book be the starting point for a lifelong love affair with the art of cooking, turning clutter in the kitchen into a symphony of flavors and laughter.

Cat Anderson doesn't want much out of life. Give her a circle of friends to giggle with, a few cute boys to flirt with, and she is good to go She is perfectly content...until a scheduling mishap on her first day of 8th grade places her in a culinary arts class.

Food, it turns out, is a very big deal.

In her family there is a secret, too big to stay hidden any longer. A secret too fantastic to be real.

Something happens when Cat bakes.

Something impossible.

Can it be true? Or is it Bake Believe?

Have you ever wanted to eat a meal that you read about in a book? Well, now you can! The Sigma Beta Pi Cookbook contains all the foods--all the dinners, desserts, breakfasts, appetizers, and drinks--eaten or mentioned in the author's other book The Sigmas of Midon. This book contains nearly 80 recipes that will allow you to eat like the girls of the Sigma Beta Pi sorority, melt into Tia's beignets, drink Bree's hot chocolate, or make Embry's lemon-chicken gravy, all in your own kitchen. Also included are hints, tips, tricks, and suggested side dishes to help you along and explain why some cooking methods are better than others.

Have you ever wanted to eat a meal that you read about in a book? Well, now you can! The Sigma Beta Pi Cookbook contains all the foods--all the dinners, desserts, breakfasts, appetizers, and drinks--eaten or mentioned in the author's other book The Sigmas of Midon. This book contains nearly 80 recipes that will allow you to eat like the girls of the Sigma Beta Pi sorority, melt into Tia's beignets, drink Bree's hot chocolate, or make Embry's lemon-chicken gravy, all in your own kitchen. Also included are hints, tips, tricks, and suggested side dishes to help you along and explain why some cooking methods are better than others.

Now that Cat knows what her baking can do, it's time to discover why and how!

Cat and her family roadtrip all the way to Arizona for Thanksgiving break to find the answers they need at the family bakery. Instead of resolving her bazillion questions, Cat finds herself in the middle of a bakery showdown with suspicion as the main ingredient. Emotions are all over the place as Cat and Robyn learn the hard way that reckless baking and magic is a recipe for disaster.

Bake-Off, the sequel to Bake Believe, is a high jinks urban fantasy for fans of Just Add Magic.

Sixteen-year-old Sophie Nicolaides was practically raised in the kitchen of her family's Italian-Greek restaurant, Taverna Ristorante. When her best friend, Alex, tries to persuade her to audition for a new reality show, Teen Test Kitchen, Sophie is reluctant. But the prize includes a full scholarship to one of America's finest culinary schools and a summer in Napa, California, not to mention fame.

Once on set, Sophie immediately finds herself in the thick of the drama--including a secret burn book, cutthroat celebrity judges, and a very cute French chef. Sophie must figure out a way to survive all the heat and still stay true to herself. Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous by Kathryn Williams is a terrific YA offering--fresh, fun, and sprinkled with romance.

What do you do when you want to run away -- but you end up finding yourself?

A dual citizen of Mexico and the United States, Carlos Portillo is happy to follow the well-worn path to a future of comfort and ease in Mexico City that's been planned for him since birth. But when his older brother Felix--who defied their parents to live a life of adventure--is tragically killed, Carlos is determined to live out his own dreams for the both of them.

He escapes to San Juan Island off the coast of Washington state and gets a job with a celebrity chef he's admired from afar for years. But while things are coming together for him in the kitchen, a forbidden romance with his boss's daughter could end his career before it even begins. Finally living for himself, Carlos learns that reality doesn't come with a road map to an easy life -- but does finding your true path mean following your head? Or your heart?

An exceptional tale of grief, ambition, love, and maturity.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adult nominee
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A TAYSHAS Reading List Book

Plum's thrilled about her arranged marriage. Becoming the daughter-in-law of a great chef will let her take her magical cooking skills to new heights. Then her little sister Dami dresses up as a boy and joins the army--a crime punishable by death. To keep her sister safe, Plum abandons her wedding, assumes Dami's identity, and reports for her sister's duties scrubbing dishes at the palace. Lying for Dami leaves Plum tangled up in intrigue and accused of poisoning the royal family. To clear her name, Plum has to figure out who's really behind the attacks. But delving into the identity of the true poisoner unearths darker plots. If Plum wants to save herself, her family, and her nation, she's going to have to cook the dish of a lifetime.

As the past and the present collide, one baker and one quarterback team up. The two might be the winning ingredient in a timeless recipe.

**Hardcover edition includes BONUS recipe content**

Mia DeSalvo is one tough cookie, who can throw a perfect spiral and bake perfect biscotti. But, as George Washington High's top student and ninth-grade class president, she's thrown off her game when asked to tutor boarding school drop-out and secret-weapon-on-the-football-field, Bryce Fitzgerald. Despite his to-die-for dimples, he's a total bore. Besides, her plate is already full, trying to save her family's struggling century-old Italian bakery.

Determined to tackle her family's business woes, Mia secretly devotes her free time to developing new recipes, with the help of her Sicilian great-great-grandmother's handwritten cookbook. She soon discovers that blending her own innovations with her Nonna Antoinette's history may be the key to the bakery's success.

But Mia's not the only one with a secret. As rumors swirl around Bryce's lightning-speed exit from prestigious Chadwick Academy, she's resolved to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, the star quarterback's bad attitude, mixed with her flaming temper, is a recipe for disaster.

When Mia stumbles upon Bryce's beautifully written journal, it's clear his talents aren't confined to the football field, and there's much more to the hazel-eyed quarterback than she could've imagined. While the journal may hold all the answers she's looking for, the weight of its heartbreaking words may be too much for her to carry.

With the future of the DeSalvo Bakery and the football State Championship hanging in the balance, Mia and Bryce might just have what the other is missing.

Armed with an antique cookbook and a football, this unlikely pair will discover the importance of embracing an enduring legacy and keeping cherished memories alive.

The Winning Ingredient is a lower young adult novel about unwavering friendship through loss and triumph and is the debut novel for this previously published author.

As the past and the present collide, one baker and one quarterback team up. The two might be the winning ingredient in a timeless recipe.

**Hardcover edition includes BONUS recipe content**

Mia DeSalvo is one tough cookie, who can throw a perfect spiral and bake perfect biscotti. But, as George Washington High's top student and ninth-grade class president, she's thrown off her game when asked to tutor boarding school drop-out and secret-weapon-on-the-football-field, Bryce Fitzgerald. Despite his to-die-for dimples, he's a total bore. Besides, her plate is already full, trying to save her family's struggling century-old Italian bakery.

Determined to tackle her family's business woes, Mia secretly devotes her free time to developing new recipes, with the help of her Sicilian great-great-grandmother's handwritten cookbook. She soon discovers that blending her own innovations with her Nonna Antoinette's history may be the key to the bakery's success.

But Mia's not the only one with a secret. As rumors swirl around Bryce's lightning-speed exit from prestigious Chadwick Academy, she's resolved to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, the star quarterback's bad attitude, mixed with her flaming temper, is a recipe for disaster.

When Mia stumbles upon Bryce's beautifully written journal, it's clear his talents aren't confined to the football field, and there's much more to the hazel-eyed quarterback than she could've imagined. While the journal may hold all the answers she's looking for, the weight of its heartbreaking words may be too much for her to carry.

With the future of the DeSalvo Bakery and the football State Championship hanging in the balance, Mia and Bryce might just have what the other is missing.

Armed with an antique cookbook and a football, this unlikely pair will discover the importance of embracing an enduring legacy and keeping cherished memories alive.

The Winning Ingredient is a lower young adult novel about unwavering friendship through loss and triumph and is the debut novel for this previously published author.

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and television series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption--gastronomical and rhetorical--the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society, history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and television series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption--gastronomical and rhetorical--the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society, history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.