when in doubt add butter by beth harbison

Happily single, Gemma has a red-hot one-night stand with a guy she meets in a bar, and trades flirty notes with 'Mr. With five regular clients ranging from a boisterous Russian family to an allergy-prone housewife she's making a go of it. In her late 30s, Gemma has abandoned the corporate lifestyle to follow her first love: cooking. Because sometimes in life, all you need is a little hope, a lot of courage, and-oh yes-butter.īestseller Harbison (Shoe Addicts Anonymous) dazzles in her latest, a perfect blend of chick lit and women's fiction that tells the story of private chef Gemma Craig and her bumpy road to happily-ever-after. So when Gemma's takes an unexpected turn on a road she always thought was straight and narrow, she must face her past and move on in ways she never would have imagined.

Life, on the other hand, is full of variables. Use good ingredients, follow the directions, and you are assured success. Tuesday,' whom she has never met but who she is strangely drawn to.įor Gemma, cooking is predictable.

There's Lex, the fussy but fabulous department store owner who loves Oysters Rockefeller and 1950s comfort food Willa, who needs to lose weight under doctor's orders but still believes butter makes everything better a colorful family who may or may not be part of the Russian mob an überwealthy Georgetown family the picture-perfect Van Houghtens, whose matriarch is 'allergic to everything' and finally, a man she calls 'Mr. She's got six steady clients that keep her hands full. At thirty-seven, she has her own business, working as a private chef, and her life feels full and secure. In fact, it's her job to cater other peoples' dates, and that's just fine by her. From the New York Times bestselling author of Shoe Addicts Anonymous and Always Something There to Remind Me comes a delicious new novel about the search for true love and all the ingredients that go into it.Īs far as Gemma is concerned, her days of dating are over.

When in doubt add butter by beth harbison