![]() ![]() ![]() A sampling of recipes offers guidance for would-be chefs, while a romantic triangle subplot adds zest to an already tasty read. Williams (The Lost Summer) creates a cast of passionate, competitive, and sympathetic characters with big aspirations and mundane problems, seeking to sharpen their skills and learn who to trust in a manufactured environment that offers both opportunities and pitfalls. Get this from a library Pizza, love, and other stuff that made me famous. ![]() not be achieved obviously, like flying or other stuff) is the ultimate goal. That hurdle conquered, Sophie arrives at Napa Valley’s National Culinary Academy, meets her fellow contestants (“a smorgasbord of diversity”), and begins intense training from top chefs under high-pressure conditions, which are exacerbated by omnipresent cameras, microphones, and “Kitchen Confidential” interviews. Actually just one of them would make me want to give this a 10/10 and it is. Urged to compete by Alex, “my friend who happens to be a boy,” Sophie finds winning the qualifying competition easier than persuading her protective father to let her pursue her dreams via reality TV. Hello Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous by Kathryn Williams Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sophie Nicolaides was practically raised in the kitchen of her family’s Italian-Greek restaurant, Taverna Ristorante. Sixteen-year-old Sophie Nicolaides proves to be a humorous and congenial narrator as she shares the serendipitous events that transport her from behind-the-scenes kitchen support in her family’s Taverna Ristorante in Washington, D.C., to a contestant on the reality show Teen Test Kitchen. ![]()
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