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Comfort Food

A Novel

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5 of 5 copies available

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club comes a delectable new novel about food, family, and second chances.

Augusta Simpson has come a long way since her husband's sudden death left her to raise two daughters on her own. She carved a successful career out of her natural talents as a chef and hostess, becoming a famous TV cooking personality. But now, as she approaches fifty, she finds that her well-earned turf may not be as secure as she thought. A hot, young Latin beauty queen with a flair for spices and an ambition for stardom is threatening to steal her spot on the Cooking Channel. As she struggles to remake herself for a new age of media, she discovers that her entire life needs a makeover, including her relationship with her daughters and perhaps another chance at romance.

Comfort Food is about the power of food to bring people together and the joys of savoring every bite of life.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 10, 2008
      Jacobs follows The Friday Night Knitting Club
      with another multigenerational tale, this time on the foodie circuit. Popular Cooking with Gusto!
      host Augusta “Gus” Simpson, a widowed mother of two adult daughters who’s about to turn 50, is tiring of her many obligations, which include throwing an annual birthday bash for herself. That trial pales, however, in comparison with the introduction of saucy former beauty queen and YouTube star Carmen Vega as Gus’s cohost: Carmen is younger, hotter and very tight with the boss. It’s soon apparent on the set that this new situation isn’t working, so the two are packed off, along with a forgettable cast of secondaries, to a corporate team-building weekend, complete with New Age guide. When the resort’s head chef calls in sick, a team-building opportunity presents itself. Jacobs gives Gus a reasonable love interest and provides the requisite bickering and backstabbing, but the foodie moments lack passion, and the results yield no stars.

    • Library Journal

      August 15, 2008
      Jacobs's cheery follow-up to the best-selling "Friday Night Knitting Club" (soon to be a feature film starring Julia Roberts) is another multigenerational tale with broad appeal, one tracking the personal and professional tribulations of a popular celebrity chef and her two twentysomething daughters. While the secondary story lines are at times a bit thin, Barbara Rosenblat's (www.barbararosenblat.com) ebullient narration and the string of happy endings make this a good choice for popular collections. [With tracks every three minutes for bookmarking; also recorded by Penguin Audio. 9 CDs. unabridged. 10 hrs. ISBN 978-0-14-314316-1. $39.95; audio clips available through www.blackstoneaudio.com and us.penguingroup.com; the Putnam hc was "highly recommended," "LJ" 4/1/08.Ed.]Beth Farrell, Portage Cty. Dist. Lib., Garrettsville, OH

      Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Augusta "Gus" Simpson, a cooking channel diva, is turning 50 and is in danger of losing her television show. She has to cope with professional struggles, like the beauty queen turned chef appearing on her program, and personal ones, like her daughters' complicated love lives. Barbara Rosenblat gives a flawless performance, creating voices for Gus and each of the characters. Rosenblat performs Jacobs's hilarious scenes perfectly, capturing all the intended humor. Her skill as a narrator is highlighted by her ability to switch characters seamlessly, as demonstrated by her shifts from Spanish beauty queen Carmen to New Jersey next-door neighbor Hannah. A delicious performance from soup to nuts. R.F. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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