We have not got rid of the troubles, but we will have to get some good taste back whatever. The creative writing they are a good option to find it. This is a selection of 8 titles —From classics to recent bestsellers— where sweet or salty taste looms large in their stories.
The cook of Castamar - Juan M. Núñez
We start with this story set in the Spain of 1720 with the ingredients of the genre: intrigues, loves, envies, secrets and lies. The stars Clara, a young girl from grace, who suffers from agoraphobia since he lost his father suddenly. Is a excellent cook and thanks to this he manages to access the Duchy of Castamar.
Alli upsets the calm and also apathetic existence of Don Diego, the Duke, who after having lost his wife in an accident, lives isolated and alone surrounded by the service. But Clara will soon discover that this calm may be about to blow up.
It just became series television of 8 chapters made by A3Media and premieres this month.
The mansion of chocolates - Maria Nikolai
One of the most recent bestseller highly successful written by this German author of romantic historical novel.
Located at the beginning of the XNUMXth century in Stuttgart, has as protagonist Judith Rothman, daughter of a prosperous chocolate maker. Destined to make a good marriage and have children to secure her inheritance, she will have other aspirations, such as occupy a position important in the company. Also, getting married without being in love is not part of their plans.
At the same time, his mother, Hélène, free-spirited and passionate, he is doing a resting cure at Lake Garda and there he discovers that he still has time to change your dull life in Germany by a more independent one in Italy.
Craving violets - Martine Bailey
We do not move from the great mansions or the flavors in kitchens in another story set in them. Here the mansion is Mawton hall and the protagonist is called Biddy leigh, an impulsive cook's assistant, who wants to start a family with Jem Burdett and open his own tavern. But when sir geoffrey, his old lord, marries the young and enigmatic Lady carinna, Biddy is involved in a web of intrigues, secrets and lies, with also a trip to Italy in between.
Lemon bread with poppy seeds - Cristina Campos
It has been a great literary success and even the director Benito zambrano has taken over the film version, also shot in Mallorca, where the plot takes place. There, in a small inland town, Anna and MarinaTwo sisters separated in their youth, they meet again to sell a bakery that they have inherited from a mysterious woman whom they think they don't know. Have very different lives and while Anna has barely left the island and is still married to a man she no longer loves, Marina travels the world for her work in an NGO.
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE - Laura Esquivel
Un classic and to this title by Laura Esquivel, also with its corresponding version for the cinema, which left us - and continues to leave - the best flavor. The one with the chocolate and the one with the impossible love story what counts between Tita, the protagonist, and Pedro. Let's remember that there is a recipe per chapter and a lot of magic.
Between dust and cinnamon - Eli Brown
Pirates and food. What is more flavorful than this combination? Set in 1819, it tells the story of Owen wedgwood, a renowned cook who is known as "the Caesar of Sauces", who is kidnapped by a group of pirates led by a woman, the Captain Hannah Mabbot. She will let him know that he can only be saved if every Sunday, without fail, she serves him an exquisite meal.
Five quarters of an orange - Joanne Harris
Harris is also the author of Chocolat, so keep adding flavor with this title that stars Raspberry, a woman who recalls the flavors and feelings of her childhood in France, in the midst of the hardships of war, and especially by a event that marked the destiny of his life and that of his family. Already in maturity, Framboise will have to face that past.
Almond cake with love - Angela Vallvey
We leave the past and end in the present with this story by Angela Vallvey whose protagonist is Fiona, a young woman, orphaned by a mother, who cares for her sick father and who does not know how to cook. With problems also with the junk food and precooked, what it does know is amar. She has been in love all her life with Alberto, who has just returned to the city. The bad thing is that he has started dating Lylla, that best enemy we all have. But then Fiona's school tutor invites her to lunch one day and introduces her to her aunt Mirna, an old-fashioned cook. And everything will change.