Comfort Food | Kate Jacobs

Comfort Food | Kate Jacobs | Well written, but flawed

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Comfort Food

	Comfort Food Kate Jacobs Putnam Adult, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club, a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment? and manages to spice up her own life at the same time.

Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta ?Gus? Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she?d rather not?her own. She?s getting tired of being the hostess, the mother hen, the woman who has to plan her own birthday party. What she needs is time on her own with enough distance to give her loved ones the ingredients to put together successful lives without her.

Assisted by a handsome up-and-coming chef, Oliver, Gus invites a select group to take an on-air cooking class. But instead of just preaching to the foodie masses, she will teach regular people how to make rich, sensuous meals?real people making real food. Gus decides to bring a vibrant cast of friends and family on the program: Sabrina, her fickle daughter; Troy, Sabrina?s ex-husband; Anna, Gus?s timid neighbor; and Carmen, Gus?s pompous and beautiful competitor at the Cooking Channel. And when she begins to have more than collegial feelings for her sous-chef, Gus realizes that she might be able to rejuvenate not just her professional life, but her personal life as well. . . .

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Ate it up!

I can't ask for much more. Friendships, relationships between mothers and daughters, a bit of romance and drama, plus cooking? Gus, a fifty-year-old mother of two, has her own show, which is done in her house. She has had this show 12 years. However, she isn't like other chefs and the ratings are drizzling out. So Alan, the boss, adds a little spice, Carmen. Carmen likes to cook but likes herself and fame more.

We also have a whole other cast, that make up for a very interesting book that you will want to gobble in one setting. Find out if Carmen and Gus can co-exist together on a show. Find out if the show will end or if they will have a second season. Find out who finds love but most of all you will be thrilled and entertained throughout the whole book.

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Well written, but flawed

I read this Author's previous book, The Friday Night Knitting Club, and I was not as enamored with this one, but I still had an enjoyable time reading the book. My problem was that it read as if the author is just waiting for a film option (I can see it now, Diane Lane as "Gus"!), This book is definitely very plot driven, so I felt that I didn't get to know the characters as deeply as I would have liked to. Still, I always love a good book about a foodie!

A tasty read . . .

This is the first Kate Jacobs' book I've read and I rather enjoyed it. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the story but once I did, I was satisfied and it wasn't as predictable as some have said. There were more than a couple of lines that were laugh-out-loud funny. It's light reading, but I would recommend it.

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