1861: the Civil War awakening by Adam Goodheart

Blood, bones, & butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

Blue nights by Joan Didion

Blood, bones, & butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef by Gabrielle Hamilton — Chef and restaurateur Hamilton, chef/owner of acclaimed New York City restaurant Prune, offers a sensuous and evocative memoir of her rural Pennsylvania childhood and her training as writer and chef. Hamilton is a very talented writer and offers an unusually compelling chef's memoir.

If you are a fan of Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy Bear, a Denver, Colorado full-time caterer and amateur detective, series:

The body in the bouillon by Katherine Hall Page

Chocolate chip cookie mystery by Joanne Fluke

Bitter sweets : a Savannah Reid mystery by G.A.