{"id":11151,"date":"2020-04-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:59:37","slug":"s-is-for-salty-bitter-sweet-flavors-and-emotions-by-mayra-cuevas-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11151","title":{"rendered":"S is for SALTY, BITTER, SWEET flavors and emotions, by Mayra Cuevas (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Food is Isa’s love language – this debut #ownvoices novel could fit anywhere in the April A to Z blog challenge calendar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like D, E, F for divorce, that took Papi from the 17 year old and her mom in Chicago to a new, now-expectant wife in southern France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G for chef Grattard’s cooking school nearby, Isa’s chance to win a place working at his world-famous restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S for her stepmom’s college-age Spanish stepson who flirts with Isa’s classmates and is staying the summer too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or P for peeling potatoes, perfection, problems at the school – 13 teens from around the world competing for a single apprenticeship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T is taste, trial and error, tradition, and Chef Troissant demanding total concentration from her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A,B,C for her late Abuela, beloved Cuban grandmother whose magical touch in the kitchen spread love through a small Kansas town, whose handwritten cookbook Isa still can’t open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L is the charming city of Lyon<\/a> and learning and legacies and\u2026 love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you psyche yourself up for big opportunities?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Salty, Bitter, Sweet \/ Mayra Cuevas. Blink YA Books, 2020. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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