Kate Jacobs Comfort Food

Kate Jacobs
Comfort Food
Title: Comfort Food
Author: Kate Jacobs
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 336
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0399154655
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 6.4 MB
Download: allowed
Description
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 onair 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 souschef, Gus realizes that she might be able to rejuvenate not just her professional life, but her
personal life as well. . . .
Insightful reviews
Célia: Amor e Guloseimas é o último livro da escritora americana Kate Jacobs, que já tinha sido
publicada em Portugal com o livro O Clube de Tricô de Sexta à Noite (cuja adaptação ao
cinema, com a participação de Julia Roberts, se prevê estrear em 2010).
A personagem principal deste Amor e Guloseimas é Gus Simpson, uma mulher prestes a
chegar aos 50 anos, que dedica a sua vida, há década e meia, à culinária e ao programa
televisivo Cozinhar com Gusto!. No entanto, as audiência estão a baixar e, para além da crise
de meia-idade e dos problemas das suas duas filhas, Gus vê-se a braços com a perspectiva de
ter de partilhar o seu programa com um novo valor do mundo da cozinha, Carmen Vega, que
se transforma rapidamente na sua rival.
É uma história divertida a espaços, mas que fala essencialmente sobre mudanças e sobre a
forma como lidamos com elas. Nunca é tarde para mudar, aprender, evoluir. Por vezes um
pouco previsível, mas não tanto como se poderia supor à partida, este livro acaba por se
transformar numa leitura agradável em que as páginas facilmente se voltam. Confesso que
gostei de acompanhar as aventuras desta família e as várias referências à comida revelam-se
ideais para confortar estes dias mais frios.
Julie: pleasant but a bit boring and predictable
Amy: CD/Unabridged: This is my first Kate Jacobs book and it was fun. It's about a woman who
just turned 50 and is the perky host of a cable cooking show. Think Paula Dean, only thinner.
She is a widow with two daughters when her professional life falls apart. Her show is in jeopardy
of getting the boot when a Spanish internet host joins her show: think Penelope Cruz. There is a
wide cast of characters including the bald, handsome producer, disgraced ex-tennis player
neighbor, daughter's boyfriend still in the picture, and group counselor. I found most of the book
enjoyable with the right amount of drama and tension mixed with comedy and lilt. The best part
is Oliver stuck in the elevator by himself. The narrator, Barbara Rosenblat, does a great job with
the different voices and accents. I had to slow down my listening because I didn't want it to end.
I do recommend this and a good summertime read.
Lain: Zzz... oh, i am sorry, did you assert something? I say sorry -- i used to be placed right into
a deep sleep by means of this most recent ebook from Kate Jacobs. an exceptional therapy for
insomnia!I could not make it prior a hundred pages. an excessive amount of telling, no longer
adequate showing, and no clue the place the publication used to be going or why. If I learn
another observe approximately terrible little Gus the television star, who sounds like a complete
unlikeable keep watch over freak, i used to be going to scream. not anything happened, and
that i did not rather care if it did or not. The inconsistencies relatively obtained to me, too... she
does not personal a cookbook yet by some means has a replica of Julia kid's French Cooking
Vol. II in her house, who does not put on a seatbelt although her husband died in a bad site
visitors accident... whatever. this is often happening my "will by no means finish" list.
Cathe Olson: Ridiculous tale with a solid of completely unlikeable character--especially the most
personality who the reader is meant to sympathize with. Gus, the respected cooking channel
exhibit host, is such an overbearing, paranoid, controlling individual that the total tale simply
does not work. If I had had anything to be had to learn on a visit backward and forward to LA, i'd
have given up in this one on the element the place characters are taking part in a fake online
game of tennis. Ug!
Kristin: i cannot think i really comprehensive this book. midway through, i spotted i used to be
nonetheless ready to love it. I saved plowing ahead, hoping that the following bankruptcy may
redeem the entire really written and developed prior chapters. That by no means happened.
Characters have been dull, the tale felt rushed and incomplete, and the nutrients gave the look
of an after thought. Over all, the full tale used to be contrived. The finishing was once
saccharine and got here jointly some distance too well to also be remotely believable,
entertaining, or satisfying. i'd supply this publication 0 stars if it have been possible.
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