Kate Jacobs: Comfort Food

I loved Kate Jacobs’ The Friday Night Knitting Club (which I will definitely be reviewing soon), so when I was in LaGuardia last weekend and saw Comfort Food, I was really excited to pick it up!  Kate’s books are so well-written; easy to read with very highly developed characters.

Comfort Food focuses on two women who are hosts of TV cooking shows, but are on opposite sides of their careers.  Gus celebrates her 50th birthday and is feeling a bit out of style, while Carmen is trying to break into the business. When they are thrown together on a Cooking Channel show, each must learn to grow and work as a team or they will both fail.  The book also has a strong “supporting cast” made up of Gus’s daughters, her neighbor, and coworkers on the show.

I didn’t love this book nearly as much as I loved The Friday Night Knitting Club, but I enjoy most women’s literature books and this was no different.  Throwing Gus, Carmen, and all of Gus’s family and friends (and their dysfunctional relationships) together to film a TV show makes for great reading, as does the “team building” weekend they have to endure.

You can find Comfort Food and The Friday Night Knitting Club in our Amazon store.  I also have my own copy that I’d love to pass off to someone.  Anyone have a book they want to trade?

E.