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Bread And Butter (2014)

by Michelle Wildgen(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385537433 (ISBN13: 9780385537438)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: I started this book because I needed something to read. I can't say I really enjoyed it because I don't think I did and yet I felt I needed to finish it because I did want to know what happened. For me, this book was too wordy, although well written, and it never really had any drama or anything happening. Actually, it was probably closer to real life, now that I think on it, just regular things happening in a regular way.
review 2: I was really excited to pick up this new foodie novel from the library. I enjoy reading fiction and watching movies set in restaurants, and with Michelle Wildgen's background in food writing, I thought it would be a great book. Instead, I found myself skimming chapters and skipping ahead. On the positive side, the food writing... more is pretty great. Her descriptions of dishes are mouthwateringly delicious and I could picture the inside of the restaurants from her visual descriptions. But the plot is luke warm. Two brothers who are restaurant partners are challenged when the third brother decides to open a new restaurant across town. There is an undercurrent of sibling rivalry, a few forbidden romance scenes, and day-to-day patter of restaurant business stress. I kept waiting for something big to happen, and it did not. I would say Bread and Butter is an appropriate title. It was certainly no Lamb's neck with Jerulasem artichokes, broccoli rate and gremolata, even if that is the new restaurant's signature dish. less

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