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Name of Book: Delicious! Author: Ruth Reichl ISBN: 978-1-4000-6962-0 Publisher: Random House Type of book: 1940s, modern times, New York, Midwest, correspondence, food, cooking, recipes, history of food in WWII, rations, secrets, code, mystery, Italian-Americans during WWII Year it was published: 2014 Summary: In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and never more so than in her dazzling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts. Billie Breslin has traveled far from her California home to take a job at Delicious, the most iconic food magazine in New York and, thus, the world. When the publication is summarily shut down, the colorful staff, who have become an extended family for Billie, must pick up their lives and move on. Not Billie, though. She is offered a new job: staying behind in the magazine's deserted downtown ...