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Wildflowers and Wooden Spoons is the second of three in Lucia's Wildflowers series and is a cookbook with stories from her childhood and the ten years she owned and operated a scratch kitchen cafe in South Florida. Lucia's cafe, Mother Earth Sanctuary Cafe, located in Lake Worth, Florida between 2007 and 2017, featured over 20 original veggie burgers, soups influenced by cultures around the world, a signature Mac and Cheese and other comfort foods as well as Lucia's signature sauces. Readers will find recipes from Lucia's Italian heritage as well as creative ways to serve pancakes, make edible candles and Ethiopian Honey Wine."My cafe served a lot of vegan dishes but I did not limit myself to vegan or vegetarian food because I wanted to feed everyone. If you were a vegan, vegetarian or meat eater, I had something special for you," Lucia says, "And because I grew up in a working class family, I learned early how to make healthy, satisfying meals on a budget."The recipes in Wildflowers and Wooden Spoons highlight healthy, whole food, budget friendly dishes with stories that remind us how central and powerful "cooking with love" really is and that we all have our own kitchen magic right at our fingertips.

Magic weaves into memoir with a wild crone narrator - Lucia's future self - who reads stories of her "past tenses" to fairies by a fire. Raw, sensuous and often humorous, Lucia's stories are intimate portrayals of love, loss and gained wisdom.

"Though Elle Saunders grew up in Florida, life hasn't always been sunny. When she and her best friends take over the summer camp where they met as kids, things start looking up. But the camp, now a sexy getaway for wealthy guests looking for fun and romance, is definitely a handful. And the hunky brothers she hired to help manage things aren't making life any easier--especially that Liam... Liam Costa wrangled this job to confront the woman he thought had seduced his father and lured him away from the family business. But Liam didn't count on Elle being so mesmerizingly beautiful, and suddenly he's having trouble focusing on, well, anything but her. Elle and Liam have been dancing around each other all summer. He's powerfully drawn to her, and she to him, but Elle doesn't trust herself with love. She's had bad luck with men, and he's a sexy distraction she can't afford."--Page 4 of cover.