Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She'll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is a past she barely knows. Among her late grandmother's belongings, Nikki finds an old notebook filled with handwritten German recipes and wise sayings pulled from the book of Proverbs. With each recipe she makes, she invites locals to the family table to hear their stories about the town's history, her ancestors--and her estranged father. What started as a cathartic way to connect to her heritage soon becomes the means through which she learns how the women before her endured--with the help of their cooking prowess. Nikki realizes how delicious streusel with a healthy dollop of faith can serve as a guide to heal wounds of the past.
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There are so few novels that I find fun to read, educational or at least interesting enough to warrant reading hundreds of pages but this is surely it. It even made me curious to experiment with German cuisine which I never found appealing before. There is a wonderful mix of recipes, quotes, things to think about and a few Bible verses in there to make someone think about one's spiritual life but not too much that all there is in the book is that. There are a few things one can underline in it too. It was refreshing to read a novel where romance takes a back seat somehow and yet, it is there in the background. No kisses at least none that I can remember or anything like that so even those of us who don't read romantic novels, can enjoy the book. I hope the author will write more novels in a similar fashion.
