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A review by kblincoln
Nuts by Alice Clayton
4.0
So Roxie gets fired from her personal chef job in L.A. because of ....butter. And she gets shanghaied by her 80's hippie mother to come back to small, upstate New York town to run the family diner-- something Roxie has spent her whole life trying to escape.
But then she runs into her high school crush ("The Chad ") and his spouse and finds she didn't automatically revert to her tongue-tied, shy high school self. And then there's the farmer she keeps running into and spilling his nuts all over the floor (or giving her his giant zuchinni-- I kid you not, the jokes fly between multiple characters about zuchinnis and cucumbers, not to mention one-liners like "I can't believe you brought nuts to a potato fight" etc), and then there's a burgeoning cake business (this is an author who loves her food, the descriptions of the cakes themselves are worth reading this book for) and we end up with a romantic comedy that brings on the heat between the farmer and the chef.
There's also a slight case of Hudson River Valley and sustainable/organic farming proselytizing in here which was fun to read.
But mostly you'll just have fun. Because Roxie is a hoot, and Roxie and her farmer like to tease eachother, and basically you just wish you were in Roxie's diner eating her Black Walnut cake or taking Zombie Pickle lessons from her with The Chad.
Off I go to check out the next in the series, which features a tall, dark, taciturn dairy farmer with great, big......cheeses.
But then she runs into her high school crush ("The Chad ") and his spouse and finds she didn't automatically revert to her tongue-tied, shy high school self. And then there's the farmer she keeps running into and spilling his nuts all over the floor (or giving her his giant zuchinni-- I kid you not, the jokes fly between multiple characters about zuchinnis and cucumbers, not to mention one-liners like "I can't believe you brought nuts to a potato fight" etc), and then there's a burgeoning cake business (this is an author who loves her food, the descriptions of the cakes themselves are worth reading this book for) and we end up with a romantic comedy that brings on the heat between the farmer and the chef.
There's also a slight case of Hudson River Valley and sustainable/organic farming proselytizing in here which was fun to read.
But mostly you'll just have fun. Because Roxie is a hoot, and Roxie and her farmer like to tease eachother, and basically you just wish you were in Roxie's diner eating her Black Walnut cake or taking Zombie Pickle lessons from her with The Chad.
Off I go to check out the next in the series, which features a tall, dark, taciturn dairy farmer with great, big......cheeses.