The Recipe Club
Subtitle: a tale of food and friendship
By: Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel
Contributors: Garfinkel, Nancy; Clark, Melissa
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Polhemus Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780982349205
Subjects: Cooks; Female friendship; Fiction
Description: Lilly and Val, friends from childhood, reveal their feelings, secrets, and recipes through a series of letters, until a misunderstanding separates them for years and a death forces them to decide if they want to reconcile.
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.

"Recipes in collaboration with Melissa Clark."

Includes index of recipes.

Includes recipes: All-day bread and breakfast (Better-late-than-never zucchini quickbread -- Catcher in the rye bread -- Count-on-it cornbread -- Currant and ginger scones -- Dorm room oatmeal with dried fruit & nuts -- Earth Day yogurt -- Luck o' the Irish soda bread -- Mighty math muffins -- Worry-free waffles) -- Cheese (Double date blintzes -- Welsh "rabbit") -- Desserts and sweets (Apple and pear friendship fool -- Baked orange Alaska -- Ben's brownie sundae -- Candied orange peels -- Celebration cheesecake pie -- Chess pie -- Chocolate chip cannolis -- Chocolate-dipped heart cookies -- Chocolate icebox cake -- Conspiracy apple pie -- Cupid's chocolate cake -- Enlightened peanut brittle -- First-kiss caramel almond kisses -- FitzMitchell's shortbread -- Get-out-of-bed bread pudding with cinnamon ice cream -- Golden honey cake -- Homemade moon pie cookies -- Isaac's ice cream pie -- Jazzy jelly rolls with homemade raspberry jam -- Opera cake -- Peanut butter blondie bars -- Swedish crescent cookies -- Thank God for butterscotch pudding -- The nutty professor cookies -- Walden Pond pound cake -- Wash-away-the -blues berry cobbler) -- Drinks (Everything's coming up Rose's lime gimlet -- Experimental egg cream -- Good for what ails you ginger ale -- Happy New Year's glug -- Warm Amaretto milk) -- Fish (Cheerful salmon croquettes -- Friday night fish sticks -- "Real-life" red snapper -- Starry night scampi) -- Hors d'oeuvres (Cozy pigs in blankets -- Diploma dip with veggies -- Forgiveness tapenade with toast points -- Good karma veggie samosas -- New Year's Eve blini with caviar -- Turkish "cigarettes") -- Meat (Broadway baby back ribs -- Home of my own hamburgers -- Jacques' fancy meatloaf -- Jerk pork -- Kitty's phenomenal pot raost with oven-roasted potatoes) -- Pasta (Confetti spaghetti -- Lovelorn lasagna -- Mommy's macaroni and cheese -- New Year's Eve pastitsio -- Rave-reviews ravioli) -- Poultry (Coq au vin -- Ga-ga-gai pan -- Kitty's roasted chicken -- Spicy chicken and rice -- Wild duck with cherry orchard sauce) -- Salads and dressings (Green salad with giant croutons and nuts -- Missing you warmly lentil salad -- Wild girl mushroom salad) -- Soup (Chicken soup with stars -- Italian wedding soup) -- Vegetables and sides (Bitter greens with sour cream -- Cloud Nine stuffed peppers -- Green-eyed green beans -- Inner-peace brown rice and cashews -- Katherine's karrots -- Lilly's luscious limas -- Peas out of the pod -- Pen-pal pecan rice -- Potato latkes with homemade applesauce -- Smashing smashed potatoes).