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When in Doubt, Add Butter
Beth Harbison
St. Martin's Press: 2012, 338 pages
Reviewed by Jessie Park
Gemma is thirty-seven and over the dating scene. She's perfectly happy with her busy life as a personal chef, working with six very different clients. Lex and a client she calls Mr. Tuesday love comfort food, Willa needs to lose weight but is very skeptical and hates dieting, a Russian family whose patriarch may or may not be a mob boss, a typically wealthy Georgetown family, and the Van Houghtens, a family suffering hungrily because Mrs. Van Houghten claims to be allergic to anything and everything. Cooking is predictable but that is a comfort to Gemma, whose life is becoming more and more unpredictable. She's thrown for a major curve and will have to rely on her friends, her strength, and her food to keep her head above water.
