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Sto caricando le informazioni... Midsummer's Mayhemdi Rajani LaRocca
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a fun story about a young American Indian girl named Mimi. Mimi is struggling to discover what she is good at and what makes her unique. She loves to bake so she enters the town baking contest. Some strange things are happening to her father and Mimi wonders if it has to do with the ingredients she is using in her baking. The story is a re-telling of a Midsummer Night's Dream. It's full of magic and whimsy plus, there are recipes included in the back. This middle-grade novel about trying our best in the face of failure and the messy nature of relationships isn't perfect (the lead-up to the ending is especially clunky) but it's a quick, enjoyable read. It's set in a kind of bizarro, Shakespeare-infused Concord, MA, and I have an affinity for stories set in places I know. I am really looking forward to trying the recipes at the back of the book! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fantasy.
Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
Folklore.
HTML: Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family, but Mimi's dream of proving she's not the least talented member of her family seems possible when she discovers a contest at the new bakery in town. Plus, it'll start her on the path to becoming a celebrity chef like her culinary idol, Puffy Fay. But when Mimi's dad returns from a business trip, he's mysteriously lost his highly honed sense of taste. Without his help, Mimi will never be able to bake something impressive enough to propel her to gastronomic fame. Drawn into the woods behind her house by a strangely familiar song, Mimi meets Vik, a boy who brings her to parts of the forest she's never seen. Who knew there were banyan trees and wild boars in Massachusetts? Together they discover exotic ingredients and bake them into delectable and enchanting treats. But as her dad acts stranger every day, and her siblings' romantic entanglements cause trouble in their town, Mimi begins to wonder whether the ingredients she and Vik found are somehow the cause of it all. She needs to use her skills, deductive and epicurean, to uncover what's happened. In the process, she learns that in life, as in baking, not everything is sweet ... .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Mimi LOVES creating unique flavor combinations. Food just brings her such joy. It is what she feels gives her purpose. And she is super excited about having an entry in a food competition for young bakers.
But then things get weird for Mimi. She meets a strange boy in the words. She encounters all sorts of herbs and flavors. PLUS her dad has started eating every piece of food in sight. And people appear to be under a spell. How does all of it tie up??
This book is part homage to food competition shows (and Mimi's obsession with celebrity chef Puffy Fay reminds me of a mix of Guy Fieri and Gordon Ramsay) and a take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Considering I am unfamiliar with the story, I got confused with "Midsummer's Mayhem" towards the end of the book. But in the end, everything DID make sense.
I am obsessed with the recipes mentioned in the book. My mouth salivated as I read. And the chocolate chip thyme cookies with orange zest.....yeah I am going to be making those! ( )