A Romance Reader's Cookbook: Seductive Recipes Inspired by the Books You Love to Read - Hardcover

by Rochelle Bilow (Author)

A cookbook celebrating the world's best-selling genre--romance novels--with 60 recipes all inspired by the plots, the tropes, and the characters, for fans of Jane Austen, Sarah J. Maas, and Kennedy Ryan alike.

Romance novels and food go together like Romeo and Juliet, and A Romance Reader's Cookbook cheekily celebrates the best of both. Inspired by beloved novels, characters, plots, and tropes, its 60 recipes are playful, easy to make, and swooningly delicious.

On the menu?

• Summer Fling Spaghetti with Burst Tomatoes
• Hot-as-Hell Pineapple Salsa
• Risk It All for Love Spicy Soufflé
• Morning Sex Cookies,
• Cabin Weekend Shepherd's Pie,
• and "We Shouldn't Be Doing This" White Wine Jell-O Gummies

Drinks include Sweet Scoundrel Iced Tea and an Outlander-themed Sassenach Whisky and Soda. There's even a recipe for Mr. Collins's favorite potatoes from Pride and Prejudice!

Like the books themselves, these dishes and bites, each created to light up the same pleasure center as a deep, slow kiss, transport us to our happy place.

Author Biography

Rochelle Bilow is a romance novelist and food writer. After graduating from culinary school and working as a restaurant cook in New York City, Rochelle moved to a small organic farm in upstate New York. Her first book, The Call of the Farm, is a memoir about cooking and falling in love there. She traded in her muck boots for high heels when she became Bon Appétit's first-ever social media manager, a role she subsequently held at Cooking Light. Rochelle appeared on season one of Beat Bobby Flay and has also written for Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler, The Kitchn, Allrecipes, and The Spruce Eats. She has published two contemporary romance novels featuring heroines who work in the food industry, Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year and Effie Olsen's Summer Special, and currently works as an editor at Serious Eats. When she's not cooking or writing, Rochelle runs ultramarathons and hangs out with her corgi, Cedar.