The Devil Served Tortellini
Maria Pagliano wants to lose weight for her high-school reunion and to impress her skinny rival, Mary Louise Zipparetto, so she joins the close-knit but mildly dysfunctional weight-loss group, the Chubby Chums. Chef Dante Del Rosso is as talented at dishing out romance as he is at whipping up incredible cuisine, but all his hard work to keep his restaurant viable almost goes up in flames when one of his employees accidentally flambes the tie of the most influential food critic in town. Then he meets Maria and can't understand why a woman as perfect as she is would want to be thinner. Despite Dante's offerings, and her grandmother's frettings, Maria sticks close to her diet, while Dante does his best to stick close to Maria. This is the second hilarious book in Jump's planned trilogy, followingThe Bride Wore Chocolate[BKL S 1 04], and it similarly contains yummy recipes accompanied by imaginative and amusing directions. Watch forThe Angel Craved Lobsterlater in 2005.Shelley MosleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved