Frankie's Place

Frankie's Place

Author: Jim Sterba

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780802141408

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A former foreign correspondent for The New York Times describes hisater-in-life love affair with New York sophisticate Frances Fitzgerald,uthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fire in the Lake, a romance marked byheir summer visits to Mount Desert Island in Maine. Reprint.


Frankie's Place

Frankie's Place

Author: Jim Sterba

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1555847412

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“A joy to read—a portrait of a place, a way of life, and a marriage by a reporter who turns out to be the world’s last extant romantic.” —Joan Didion In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, a sophisticated New York intellectual is charmed by a down-to-earth newspaperman. Frankie’s Place is the tale of a summer cottage and the story that unfolds under its roof. Jim Sterba is the down-to-earth newspaperman who charms the New York sophisticate, Frances FitzGerald, after several visits to her writer’s retreat on the coast in Maine. Frankie’s place is a secluded little house out of harm’s way and the clamor of the modern world. Icy plunges into the Somes Sound christen their island mornings; then there is a long period of dutiful writing followed, in the late afternoon, by rigorous mountain walks, forays for wild mushrooms, and sailing. In the evenings Jim and Frankie prepare simple island meals as they talk about everything from the stories or books they’re working on to the bigger issue of Jim’s reunion with his long-lost father. Although they couldn’t have had more disparate childhoods—Jim grew up on a struggling Michigan farm while Frankie lived in a Manhattan town house and an English country estate—their shared summer rituals have them falling in love before our eyes. “A highly entertaining tale of love, family, and place . . . It took me places I hadn’t expected to go. I loved it.” —Tom Brokaw


The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual

The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual

Author: Frank Castronovo

Publisher: Artisan Books

Published: 2010-06-14

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1579654495

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From Brooklyn's sizzling restaurant scene, the hottest cookbook of the season... From urban singles to families with kids, local residents to the Hollywood set, everyone flocks to Frankies Spuntino—a tin-ceilinged, brick-walled restaurant in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens—for food that is "completely satisfying" (wrote Frank Bruni in The New York Times). The two Franks, both veterans of gourmet kitchens, created a menu filled with new classics: Italian American comfort food re-imagined with great ingredients and greenmarket sides. This witty cookbook, with its gilded edges and embossed cover, may look old-fashioned, but the recipes are just we want to eat now. The entire Frankies menu is adapted here for the home cook—from small bites including Cremini Mushroom and Truffle Oil Crostini, to such salads as Escarole with Sliced Onion & Walnuts, to hearty main dishes including homemade Cavatelli with Hot Sausage & Browned Butter. With shortcuts and insider tricks gleaned from years in gourmet kitchens, easy tutorials on making fresh pasta or tying braciola, and an amusing discourse on Brooklyn-style Sunday "sauce" (ragu), The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Kitchen Manual will seduce both experienced home cooks and a younger audience that is newer to the kitchen.


My Place at the Table

My Place at the Table

Author: Alexander Lobrano

Publisher: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1328588831

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In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it's his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: "you must understand the intentions of the cook." At the city's brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano's "little black book," an insider's guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.


Wrap N Roll

Wrap N Roll

Author: Sanjeev Kapoor

Publisher: Popular Prakashan

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9788179914014

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Master Chef Sanjeev kapoor's latest book, Wrap N Roll, is a must-have guide to making delicious wraps and rolls. Ranging from the superbly simple Garden Wraps and Cheesy Spinach rols, exotic Manchurian Rolls and Paneer Tikka Kathi Rolls, to perennial favourites like Hot Dogs and Mutton Frankies, this book has delectable, easy-to-cook recipes that will have you asking for


The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)

Author: E. Lockhart

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009-09-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1423136136

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The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud. * National Book Award finalist * * Printz Honor * Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many pranks to be done. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.


The 10pm Question

The 10pm Question

Author: Kate De Goldi

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1848774729

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Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a head full of questions. Only Ma takes him seriously, but unfortunately she is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then a new girl arrives at school with questions of her own, questions that make Frankie's carefully controlled world begin to unravel . . .


Twenty Boy Summer

Twenty Boy Summer

Author: Sarah Ockler

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 031605321X

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Twenty Days. Twenty Boys. One chance to find love. According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie---she's already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago. Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.


The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding

Author: Carson McCullers

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0735254125

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A novel that became an award-winning play and a major film, and that has charmed generations of readers, The Member of the Wedding is a story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly bored with her life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin—and her own unbridled imagination—Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, even hoping to go (uninvited) on the honeymoon. This story is a marvelous study of the agony of adolescence and of wanting to be part of something larger and more accepting than yourself. The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.


Frankie's Scared of Everything

Frankie's Scared of Everything

Author: Mathew Franklin

Publisher: Building Block Press

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781944201227

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You would be scared too if your own brain was out to get you! Follow Frankie as their imagination creates robots, beasts, sea creatures, even mole men on this technicolor adventure. Frankie makes being afraid look fun.