Off Menu: A Novel
By (Author) Amy Rosen
ECW Press,Canada
ECW Press,Canada
12th August 2025
17th July 2025
No Edition
Canada
General
Fiction
Paperback
280
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
230g
Heartburn meets Bridget Joness Diary, a wickedly funny, fast-paced, clever, and fresh novel that caters to our insatiable appetite for food and romance. Hilarity and heartbreak are dished out in equal measure.
Twenty-something Ruthie Cohen, a data entry minion for a second-tier movie app, spends her days thinking about the kickass meals shes going to make for her besties, Trish and Lilly, while pining for Dean (sigh, Dean), her vacation fling from six months earlier. Could they have made it work in real life
On top of that, Bubbe Bobby Grace, Ruthies beloved and inspiring grandmother, passed away and left Ruthie an inheritance of $62,873.42, along with instructions on how to use it: Follow your passion, Dollface. During a prosecco-fueled night with her gal pals, Ruthie decides to turn her passion into a career and learn the art of French cooking, enrolling in culinary school, paying tuition, and buying her chefs whites with a few quick clicks online. Its not long before Ruthie marches into the kitchen and feels the heat from her cooking partner, Jeff, the super hunky (totally taken!) musician that weasels his way into her brain right next to Dean.
How can anyone be expected to focus on school, cooking, career planning, baking, friends, and deciding between two hot guys, especially when one of them also thinks that John Cusack is woefully underrated And what if neither feels quite like Ruthies perfect pairing
Amy Rosen is an award-winning food and travel writer and cookbook author who writes for publications such as Food & Wine, Bon Apptit, and The Globe and Mail. A former editor-in-chief at Modern Farmer and food editor at Chatelaine, shes the author of seven cookbooks. Amys also the proud founder of Rosens Cinnamon Buns. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.