June 2011 Selection: The Love Goddess' Cooking School

Ask and your wish may come true!  We requested book ideas/suggestions earlier this year and a few Manic Mommies readers requested a book with a cooking theme.  I'm happy to say we were able to find a great book that's about so much more than cooking.

Giveaway: Watch for a 24 book giveaway to post in the next day/two, on the Manic Mommies website

When: June 22nd at 8PM EST
Where: Call-in details will be available a week before the call

We are finalizing our book selections for the rest of the year - if you have a suggestion (title, genre, theme) please send Mari an email, we will try to accommodate the request.

Synopsis: Holly Maguire’s grandmother Camilla was the Love Goddess of Blue Crab Island, Maine—a Milanese fortune-teller who could predict the right man for you, and whose Italian cooking was rumored to save marriages. Holly has been waiting years for her unlikely fortune: her true love will like sa cordula, an unappetizing old-world delicacy. But Holly can’t make a decent marinara sauce, let alone sa cordula. Maybe that’s why the man she hopes to marry breaks her heart. So when Holly inherits Camilla’s Cucinotta, she’s determined to forget about fortunes and love and become an Italian cooking teacher worthy of her grandmother’s legacy.

But Holly’s four students are seeking much more than how to make Camilla’s chicken alla Milanese. Simon, a single father, hopes to cook his way back into his daughter’s heart. Juliet, Holly’s childhood friend, hides a painful secret. Tamara, a serial dater, can’t find the love she longs for. And twelve-year-old Mia thinks learning to cook will stop her dad, Liam, from marrying his phony lasagna-queen girlfriend. As the class gathers each week, adding Camilla’s essential ingredients of wishes and memories in every pot and pan, unexpected friendships and romances are formed—and tested. Especially when Holly falls hard for Liam . . . and learns a thing or two about finding her own recipe for happiness.