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| Comfort Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Jacobs
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 10633
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0399154655
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780739496404
ASIN: 0399154655
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Product Description
In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club, a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment and manages to spice up her own life at the same time.
Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta Gus Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party shed rather nother own. Shes getting tired of being the hostess, the mother hen, the woman who has to plan her own birthday party. What she needs is time on her own with enough distance to give her loved ones the ingredients to put together successful lives without her.
Assisted by a handsome up-and-coming chef, Oliver, Gus invites a select group to take an on-air cooking class. But instead of just preaching to the foodie masses, she will teach regular people how to make rich, sensuous mealsreal people making real food. Gus decides to bring a vibrant cast of friends and family on the program: Sabrina, her fickle daughter; Troy, Sabrinas ex-husband; Anna, Guss timid neighbor; and Carmen, Guss pompous and beautiful competitor at the Cooking Channel. And when she begins to have more than collegial feelings for her sous-chef, Gus realizes that she might be able to rejuvenate not just her professional life, but her personal life as well. . . .
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 A little flaky? January 1, 2009
This is the first Kate Jacobs book I have read, and I was a little disappointed. The premise was interesting, but it felt like it was written in the style of too many other "chick lit" books, unfortunately. The love lines were predictable, and while some parts seemed to read extremely slow, there were holes in other areas. Not to ruin it for anyone, but the ending comes together in a neat little package without much room for the reader to draw their own conclusions or wonder what might have happened next.
A slow read December 17, 2008
This book was disappointing. I was hoping for the 'can't put it down' moments with this book, but it just didn't happen. As a result I ended up skipping a few chapters to the end. And when I did, I felt that I didn't miss that much in between. I gave it three stars because overall the author is a good writer, but this story wasn't engaging to me.
 A bland and boring recipe October 6, 2008
I loved the Friday Night Knitting Club and couldn't put it down. In contrast, I found Jacobs' second book to be difficult to pick up. The characters are bland and not very believable, and the plot moves like molasses. It just feels like the publisher rushed this one to print, and I was so disappointed. As evidenced by her first book, I do think Kate Jacobs is a talented storyteller, and I hope she'll return to form in the next one!
 Truly disappointed September 23, 2008
I was very excited for Comfort Food as I LOVED Friday Night Knitting Club and I was completely disappointed with this book. The book just seemed very slow and boring, there was a focus on food but the food didn't bring the characters together like the knitting store did in her previous book. I think that she tried to use that same common thread again and it just didn't work.
 Well written, but flawed September 11, 2008
I read this Author's previous book, The Friday Night Knitting Club, and I was not as enamored with this one, but I still had an enjoyable time reading the book. My problem was that it read as if the author is just waiting for a film option (I can see it now, Diane Lane as "Gus"!), This book is definitely very plot driven, so I felt that I didn't get to know the characters as deeply as I would have liked to. Still, I always love a good book about a foodie!
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