A Taste of Fame (Linda Evans Shepherd & Eva Marie Everson)

This was an impulse selection at the library, and it was a mistake. Nothing against the book or the authors, but it's not for me. A group that started out as a bible study class morphed somehow into a catering club (not any kind of a formal business - women are just good at food, you know?). Through an unlikely set of circumstances they wound up as contestants on a national TV cooking contest. They are sure to win, collecting $1 million (for the church capital fund, of course), becoming closer together and resolving their personal issues in the process. I gave it about 40 pages before moving on. I found it too "chick-lit" - too much about girls hanging together, worried about husbands and kids and boyfriends, and clothes and jewelry and food.