Finding Love and a Great Meal
Discover books about finding love and great meals with our curated reading list, featuring Eat Pray Love, A Thousand Days in Venice, and more inspiring true stories.
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A Thousand Days in Venice
by Marlena De Blasi
De Blasi, a chef and food writer from St. Louis, begins a whirlwind romance with a man in Venice.
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Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time. This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls âAnne Lamottâs hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sisterâ) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
by Wendy Dale
From salsa dancing in a rum-induced haze and struggling to exercise in Colombia (âthe guerillas were using the track again todayâ), to crossing international borders unconventionally and dodging bombs in Lebanon (âthe good news was that they were âsmall bombsââ), Wendy somehow manages to find herself in the midst of hysterical, adventurous, and often illegal situations. Case in pointâevery time she heads to Costa Rica, she is forced to visit another prison. Although a jail may not be everyoneâs idea of a place to ?nd a date, Wendy soon falls in love with a man, a country, and its people and risks everything she has to clear his name. Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals is a bumpy and hilarious ride in which Wendy discovers that a successful vacationâmuch like that elusive thing, happinessâcan be found in some of the most unlikely places imaginable.
