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    The Recipe Box: A Novel

    By Viola Shipman

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    "Filled with cherished memories and treasured recipes, The Recipe Box is a touching tribute to the women and food that unite us and connect our past to the present." —Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    "An easy, delightful novel" –Good Housekeeping

    In The Recipe Box, bestselling beloved author Viola Shipman spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life.

    Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha “Sam” Mullins felt trapped on her family’s orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star’s New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed.

    When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family’s orchard cooking and baking alongside the women in her life—including her mother, Deana, and grandmother, Willo. One beloved, flour-flecked, ink-smeared recipe at a time, Sam begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family’s history, and her passion for food through their treasured recipe box.

    As Sam discovers what matters most she opens her heart to a man she left behind, but who now might be the key to her happiness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781250165329
    Author

    Viola Shipman

    VIOLA SHIPMAN is a pen name for award-winning memoirist Wade Rouse. His novels, including The Charm Bracelet, The Hope Chest, The Summer Cottage, and The Heirloom Garden, have been translated into over a dozen languages and become international bestsellers. Rouse lives in Michigan and writes regularly for People, Good Housekeeping and Coastal Living. He is a contributor for All Things Considered.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed Viola Shipman's first two books and knew that I was in for a treat when I won a copy of The Recipe Box at goodreads. I wasn't disappointed - this was a wonderful book about family and love and relationships between mothers and daughters.Sam Mullins felt like there was too much to explore in the world and didn't want to stay at her family's orchard and pie shop in Michigan. She went to NY, to go to culinary school and got a job at a famous bakery that was often filmed for Good Morning America. She finally had her fill of the pretentious baker who ran the bakery and quit to go home to Michigan to see if she could figure out what she wanted to do with her life. Sam felt like a failure when she got home but as she works along with her family - especially her grandmother, she begins to see what is important in life but is unsure if she will be able follow her dream.Along with being a book about love between the generations of a family the author provides recipes at the end of each section. If you weren't hungry when you started the book, you will be as soon as you start reading these recipes. The family constantly bakes for each other and the deserts that they make are so well written that you can almost taste the apple turnovers and apple crisp. One other thing that I really enjoyed is that this book is a love letter to my native state of Michigan. I have always felt that the Michigan shoreline along Lake Michigan is one of the most beautiful places in the world and this book describes it so well that I feel like I've been on a mini-vacation.
    • 4/5
      This was the third book that I have read that was written by Viola Shipman. I first found this author while reading "The Charm Bracelet" which I loved and then "The Hope Chest" which I loved. I was very excited that there was another book on offer and did not waste any time requesting it.I love how in all of Shipman's books, he takes, for instance, in "The Charm Bracelet". Every charm on the bracelet has a story and a meaning for the mother of the family. The same recipe is used in the other two books. However, I wasn't as impressed with "The Recipe Box" as I was with the other books. This one just seemed to have an over abundance of cheese. That's not to say it wasn't a good read, because it was. It just wasn't one of my favorites.I did love all the names that Tricia used to describe the celebrity chef that Sam was working for before she went back home. They were some pretty funny names.If you like Hallmark movies, you will love these books.Thanks to St. Martin's Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      MY REVIEW OF “THE RECIPE BOX” BY VIOLA SHIPMANViola Shipman, Author of “The Recipe Box” has written a delightful, charming and heartwarming story of family, love, tradition and change. The Genres of this novel are Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The story takes place in Northern Michigan and New York.The author describes her characters as likable, resourceful, hardworking, and enterprising. Sam Mullins comes back to the family orchard and pie baking business and shoppes, after a major disappointment in New York City. Sam has trained as a specialty chef, and wanted to leave the family orchard to find herself. Now she finds herself back home.Sam learns about the history of the women in her family, and how the orchard was saved by the women in the family. . All of the women had a recipe box with a special key to keep their treasured baking recipes a secret to be passed down to the woman in the family. The family loves to bake, and baking is symbolic to showing love and following tradition.Is their a recipe that will allow Sam to find where she should be and the answers to her dreams? What does the key to the recipe box represent? I recommend this enjoyable story to those readers of women’s fiction. I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.
    • 4/5
      The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman is set in Bayview Points, Michigan. Samantha "Sam" Nelson is working at Dimples Bakery in New York when her boss, Chef Dimples goes too far and she quits. She has had enough of his attitude and taking credit for her work. Sam grew up in Bayview Points on her families' orchard, Mullins Pie Pantry and U-Pick. The orchard is having its hundredth birthday this summer and her grandmother, Willo is turning seventy-five. There will be a big party in honor of the two events. Sam heads home for the summer and works in the pie pantry alongside her mother, Deana and grandmother. When Sam was thirteen, she was given a handcrafted recipe box that matches grandmother's and her mother's. Inside are the family recipes that have been passed down from mother to daughter. While working alongside them and using the family recipes, she learns about their past, her family history, how the orchard came to be and her love for baking. She also learns that the right man that will complement her has been there all along if she just opens her heart. Join Sam on a journey through the past that will help her have a bright, happy future.The Recipe Box is a charming novel. I thought it was well-written and had a steady pace. Ms. Shipman has a conversational writing style that has an ease to it (makes for an easy to read story that is engaging). The author provided beautiful descriptions of the area, the orchard, the people and the baked goods (recipes included). I loved the characters in the story with Willo being my favorite. I appreciated the strong, intelligent female characters. There are great interactions between the women. Life lessons are included in The Recipe Box which include know yourself and be true to yourself. It is important to live a life without regrets. The Recipe Box is a feel-good novel. There is a predictable element, but it did not hinder my enjoyment. I like a book that gives me a good, heartwarming feeling inside and leaves me with a smile on my face when I am done reading it. I look forward to this author's next book.
    • 1/5
      no, the sun isn't up until 11 p.m. and no, you can't test apple crisp by sticking a toothpick into it and no to some other things that were written. can't read a book that bugs me with things like this.
    • 2/5
      Had high hopes for this book, but it devolved into a chick-lit novel.
    • 5/5
      the recipe boxbyviola shipmanWhat it's all about...One thing I know for certain...after reading this book the reader will either crave everything sweet or swear off of sugary treats forever! This book contains just about everything sweet and good that a book should have. It has a family...a Michigan family of bakers who own an apple orchard. The book shares stories from all of this family’s generations of bakers but focuses on Sam...she is the latest generation. She is a professionally trained chef working in NYC but...she comes home to Michigan and her family because she is at a unique point in her life. Sam needs to find out what she really wants to do with her life...is her happiness in NYC or is it in the big kitchens of her grandmother’s apple orchards. Only Sam can figure out her destiny. Why I wanted to read it...The cover of this book is deliciously enticing as are the many recipes it contains. The book details the strength of the women who have maintained and grown this orchard over the years. The book also details what life is like in Michigan near the largest lake ever. What made me truly enjoy this book...Viola Shipman used the most beautiful descriptive language when she described summers near Lake Michigan. Blues and greens and emeralds and incredibly lovely waters. Every time Sam or her dad took a bite of a crisp apple that fell from a tree right into their hands...I wanted one, too! And I can’t forget to mention the recipe boxes and their keys...the recipe cards dotted with butter and berry stains yet treasured over time. But that’s something the reader will savor while reading this book.Why you should read it, too...Readers who enjoy lovely family stories that have just a bit of angst...and tons of recipes containing apples and cherries...should enjoy this book. Just be prepared to bake something after every chapter. I received an advance reader’s copy from St. Martin’s Press And NetGalley I read this book on my Kindle Oasis via Amazon in exchange for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      Romance with supposed nicety about choices. Did not come close
    • 5/5
      Viola Shipman has a formula - and it works. The books are always about the value and the ties of family, appreciating family traditions, and what they mean to us. This particular book is about a family who owns orchards in Michigan. Each generation has handed down recipes through the years and also passed on a love of the orchards. The family has fed multiple families who have visited the orchards in the summer months. Sam is a pastry chef and is trying to make her way in NYC. However, she is working for a nasty boss and suddenly quits. She returns to Michigan to ground herself and get a rest from the weariness of losing her job. She is lost and needs to be found. Her mother and grandmother gently tell her the stories of her ancestors and their baking. Angelo, a deliveryman from NYC, has formed an attraction to Sam, and comes to Michigan to visit her. But, Sam keeps pushing him away as she doesn't know herself and is confused as to what she wants. This is a sweet story about family and tradition, made sweeter by all the wonderful treasured recipes. #TheRecipeBox #ViolaShipman
    • 5/5
      A recipe box for her thirteenth birthday? Is that what Sam really wanted?Probably not, but it made her mother and grandmother happy so Sam accepted it and made her first pie.THE RECIPE BOX was a gift no thirteen-year-old wanted, but it was a gift that kept on giving throughout Sam's life.We follow Sam as she leaves her loving Michigan home and goes to New York to attend culinary school. She was a hit in New York, but her boss was a fake. To her family’s delight Sam decided to come back home.Sam comes back to the love and warmth of her family and their bakery and orchards. Was she really ready for this? Did she make the right decision by coming back home?All of the characters were lovable, but Grandma Willo was my favorite as was the story from her youth and her life. Grandma was simply someone you would love to have as your grandmother because of her positive attitude and attention to making sure her family was happy in everything they chose.THE RECIPE BOX is a “sweet,” loving read that makes you want to go into the kitchen and be with grandma making the pies and other delicious desserts.Each chapter was titled with a recipe and inside each chapter we get to join in the family fun and view the ingredients and directions for the yummy food the family makes.THE RECIPE BOX is for anyone who loves to bake with family, who loves recipes, who loves family history, and who enjoys being in a beautiful setting.You most likely will shed a few tears not because of sadness, but because of the warmth and love that oozes from the characters and from things they say. THE RECIPE BOX is a book that is an uplifting, make-sure-you-make-the-right decisions in your life by following your instincts and embracing change. THE RECIPE BOX was definitely written WITH love and for those the author loves. 5/5This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher and NetGalley in return for an honest review
    • 5/5
      audiobookExcellent narrationRecipes excellentSweet, heartwarming this book brought back so many fond memories of my youth in upper Michigan. This is a book with strong family ties, great relationships, honesty and courage, not game playing. I felt good, peaceful and happy while reading it. A fabulous summer feel good read.I loved this tale of upper an Upper Michigan woman/pastry chef and the orchard her family owns. She was raised on her family's orchard, a multi generation owned business. She wants to make her own mark on the world so she leaves and goes to NY to work under a famous pastry chef. Things happen, life changes, and she finds herself heading home for some thinking and her grandmother's 75th birthday celebration. Once there she is drawn into the power of family and food, and re-centers her life and her heart.Pie, pie, pie, oh the pies in this book ! There are recipes, good ones I've tried three so far. The only downfall to the audio version is that I had to write them down while play pause/play pause it took some time. I ordered the hard copy so I'll have them soon.