num_pages: 336
description: Bestselling beloved author of The Charm Bracelet spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life.Growing up in northern Michigan Samantha Sam Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and in their pie shop so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed.When the chef embarrasses Sam she quits and returns home. Unemployed single and defeated she spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside the women in her life--including her mother Deana and grandmother Willo. One beloved flour-flecked ink-smeared recipe at a time Sam begins to learn about and understand the women in her life her family's history and her passion for food through their treasured recipe box.As Sam discovers what matters most she opens her heart to a man she left behind but who now might be the key to her happiness.
language: English
title: The Recipe Box
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books