02282cam a2200337 i 4500 2471332740 TxAuBib 20250808120000.0 250605s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024026101 9780593803837 hardcover 0593803833 hardcover (OCoLC)1519494534 TxAuBib rda Roberts, Adam D., author. Food person : a novel / Adam Roberts. First hardcover edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. ©2025. 301 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Isabella Pasternack is a food person. She revels in the beauty of a perfectly cooked egg, she daydreams about her first meal at Chez Panisse, and every inch of her tiny apartment teems with cookbooks, from Prune to Cooking by Hand to Roast Chicken and Other Stories. What Isabella is not, unfortunately, is a gainfully employed person. In the wake of a disastrous live-streamed soufflé demonstration, Isabella is summarily fired from her job at a digital food magazine and must quickly find a way to keep herself in buckwheat and anchovy paste. When offered the opportunity to ghostwrite a cookbook for Molly Babcock, the once-beloved television actress now mired in scandal, Isabella warily accepts. Unfortunately, Molly quickly proves herself to be a nightmare collaborator: hungover, flakey, shallow, and-worst of all-indifferent to food. But between Molly's bizarre late-night texts, goofy confessions, and impromptu road trips, Isabella reluctantly begins to see Molly's charms. Can Isabella corral Molly out of the gossip rags and into the kitchen? Can she find the key to Molly's heart and stomach? Or will Isabella's devotion to her culinary idols and Molly's monstrous ego send the entire cookbook-and both of their careers-up in flames?"-- Provided by publisher. 20250808. Ghostwriters Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Cooking Fiction. Humorous fiction. fast TXKIP