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A woman forbidden to marry channels her passion into cooking that literally enchants those who eat it.
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor, who runs a cookery school in Salvador da Bahia, marries a respectable pharmacist after her wild first husband drops dead dancing at Carnival, and then the first husband comes back as a ghost.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday in Los Angeles, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's lemon cake and tastes her mother's despair, and from then on every bite of food tells her how the cook was feeling.
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
In the cocoa port of Ilhéus in 1925, Nacib, a Syrian-born bar owner, hires Gabriela, a beautiful migrant from the backlands, as his cook, while the town's colonels fight over power.
Pedro Páramo
Juan Preciado goes to the village of Comala to find the father he never knew, Pedro Páramo, and finds a town full of murmuring voices, where the living and the dead are hard to tell apart.
Practical Magic
Raised by their witch aunts in a Massachusetts town that both fears and needs them, the Owens sisters grow up and leave, until one turns up on the other's doorstep with a dead man in her car.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
Family Lore
Flor Marte, who has always known when people are about to die, announces that she wants a living wake, and over the three days before it her sisters and their daughters gather in New York and wonder what she has foreseen.
The Seven Year Slip
Clementine West, grieving the aunt who left her a New York apartment said to slip through time, comes home one evening to find a handsome stranger in her kitchen, a chef named Iwan who is living there seven years in the past.
Land of Milk and Honey
With crops failing under a smog that has covered the world, a chef takes a job cooking for a secretive colony of the very rich on an Italian mountaintop, where real ingredients still exist.
A Strangeness in My Mind
Mevlut comes from an Anatolian village to Istanbul in 1969 to sell boza, a fermented drink, on the streets at night, and spends three years writing love letters to a girl he glimpsed once at a wedding.