Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: cooking, fiction, self-confidence, best friends, friendship, mother-daughter relationship, new paltz (n.y.), fiction