Cooking for Picasso

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"For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life. The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request--to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he's secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito. Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life--and for him, art and women are always entwined. The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family's authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites. Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny. New York, present day: Celine, a Hollywood makeup artist who's come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso. Prompted by her mother's enigmatic stories and the hint of more family secrets yet to be uncovered, Celine carries out Julie's wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met. In the lush, heady atmosphere of the Côte d'Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, Celine discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future. Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera's most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make, as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre."-- Provided by publisher.

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Cooking for Picasso submitted by i'm a blobfish on June 28, 2019, 10:09pm A combination between art and cooking. The recipes are quite good and the story is really cute.

Loved this Book! Such a complex woven story with wonderful main characters and life stories. submitted by jgetty on September 8, 2020, 12:06pm This book was really a great story! It was fun and challenging going back and forth from past day and present day, and two different main characters, and it was really fun and so interesting. I loved the story, and the life history of both main characters, and their strong characters and determination to persevere through decisions and tough situations with hope. I loved all of the wonderfully, careful details all through the story like beautiful scenery, smells, cooking and food descriptions, people's personalities, and all the feelings in the heads of the main characters were so interesting to read and imagine. I looked up a lot of information about Picasso, his women, his artwork, and the different towns mentioned in the book including Juan-les-Pins and New Rochelle after reading this book. Really loved this book! I was really impressed how the author could weave such a detailed, complicated plot and story. Actually, I was sad to finish, since it was so entertaining and very good company to read it.