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A porn star and a virgin walk into a bakery

Make You Mine (Running in Circles #1) by E.M. Lindsey

July 9, 2023 by carmelpie 4 Comments

CBR15Bingo: Edibles square CBR15Passport: New to me author Noah is a reluctant baker trying to keep his deceased bubbe’s beloved family bakery afloat. After leaving school to be the sole guardian and provider for his fourteen-year-old brother Adam, Noah believes he cannot survive losing another family member. As a young child, he and his family left Tel Aviv after the death of his father. Devastated, his mother never recovered and met her own tragic end. After losing his grandmother, twenty-year-old Noah makes a promise to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Ableism, adult film industry, American Sign Language, American South, ASL, bakery romance, Baking, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, deaf, deaf character, Deaf culture, deaf protagonist, E.M. Lindsey, gay romance, Jewish American, Jewish cuisine, jewish food, Judaism, ptsd

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Ableism, adult film industry, American Sign Language, American South, ASL, bakery romance, Baking, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, deaf, deaf character, Deaf culture, deaf protagonist, E.M. Lindsey, gay romance, Jewish American, Jewish cuisine, jewish food, Judaism, ptsd ·
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Where pastrami and hot dogs come from

Pastrami on Rye by Ted Merwin

August 18, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 18 (Award Winner) In 2015, Ted Merwin’s Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli won the National Jewish Book Award, which is presented by the Jewish Book Council. I neither knew that nor would have cared if I had known when I bought the book, but it’s rather convenient for a Bingo Square. Basically, this book is as the subtitle suggests a social and cultural history of the Jewish deli in the United States starting in 1880sish NYC through nearly the […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, food history, food writing, jewish culture, jewish food, pastrami on rye, ted merwin

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:67 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, food history, food writing, jewish culture, jewish food, pastrami on rye, ted merwin ·
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