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Some of my favorite fantasy novels involve the combination of magic and food. In honor of Wyrd & Wonder month I’d thought I’d make a list of some great magical stories involving food that I’ve read in the past year. […]

I found out about this series from a Foodies Read post. I’m super vocal about not liking cozy mysteries with amateur detectives/busy bodies inserting themselves in the investigation. But this sounded intriguing and the first book was free with my […]

Welcome to May 2021 Foodies Read! We had 34 entries in April! You guys were on fire. The winner of the drawing was The Fiction Addiction with Five Books for Foodies. Every post must feature a book about food.  Posts that don’t […]

One of my major complaints about eating out as a vegetarian is the lack of dishes based just on vegetables. A lot of times you go to a restaurant and the only vegetarian option will be something with a faux […]

Welcome to April 2021 Foodies Read! We had 27 entries in March! The winner of the drawing was Cam for Golbaengi-Muchim inspired by The Island of Sea Women. Every post must feature a book about food.  Posts that don’t center a book […]

Welcome to March 2021 Foodies Read! We had 36 entries in February! We also had a few first time participants which is great. Welcome everybody! The winner of the drawing was Mary for A Side of Murder. You are invited […]

I picked up this audiobook because it was included with my Audible membership. The setting made me laugh. Windy City Magic is a shop on Navy Pier in Chicago. I was there for a conference a few years ago. I […]

Welcome to February 2021 Foodies Read! We had 28 entries in January. The winner of the drawing was Eliot for the review of Eat Joy. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

I didn’t know quite what to expect from this book. I’m generally up for reading anything described as “quirky” and this is definitely that. In an out of the way corner of Tokyo there is a cafe that always stays […]

This book isn’t just a collection of recipes. Each woman featured is interviewed about her life and how food relates to her life and her culture. Some of these women are living in their homelands and some are living elsewhere. […]

Welcome to another year of Foodies Reads! I’d like to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who participates. We had 25 entries in December The winner of the drawing was What’s Nonfiction for Two Looks at American Cuisine. Feel […]

I was drawn immediately to this story because of the description of a woman spending her life trying to be the grown-up in her mother’s life. The Enchanted Garden Cafe is the kind of place where there are acoustic music […]

There are strict rules about where you can park for food trucks on Maui. Nikki learned that the hard way when she started out. So when a new truck is parked too close to her spot she decides to tell […]

I’m not a person who loves Christmas stories. However, I am a sucker for stories about people taking over some kind of cafe. When I saw this book offered I hoped the joy in the trope overrode my annoyance with […]

I jumped at the chance to get this book from my library. I’ve been interested in books by Marcus Samuelsson since I read his memoir, Yes, Chef. (If you aren’t familiar with his story, he was born in Kenya and […]

This isn’t a new cookbook but my library electronic book catalog suggested it to me so I decided to give it a try. If I had to pick one cuisine to eat exclusively for the rest of time, I probably […]

Welcome to December 2020 Foodies Read! We had 29 entries in November. The winner of the drawing is Tari for her review of Christmas Card Murder. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Hana is a college student in South Korea. Her boyfriend Jin moved to Japan to continue his studies. She planned to go visit him on break but she hasn’t heard from him lately. She goes to Japan as planned but […]

This book tells the story of coffee production in the 1800s and 1900s through the story of a family of plantation owners – the Hills. James Hill moved from England to El Salvador in order to sell textiles. He married […]

I picked this book for the foodie magic of course. I love the idea of a bruja-owned bakery in Texas. Leo is the youngest of five girls and hates always being thought of as the baby. She wants to do […]