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Avery Aames, author of A Cheese Shop Mystery for Berkley Prime Crime, is the pseudonym for Daryl Wood Gerber. Daryl created the format for the popular sitcom, "Out of this World" and has won awards for her screenplays. She also writes short stories and suspense novels. Not one to simply read and cook, she tends to look for adventure. She has hitchhiked around Ireland by herself and she has jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. ...more

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Kimchi Jeon (Kimchi Pancake) #recipe from Molly MacRae

I jumped at this recipe because we love kimchi. We first cameacross the salted, seasoned, fermented vegetable Korean dish in the 80s in theproduce section of our local grocery store in the northeast corner ofTennessee—hardly a cosmopolitan area at the time. It came in a large glass jar thatshowed mostly cabbage leaves packed in a brine red with seasonings and spices.Yum! It became a

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	The Long Quiche Goodbye (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 3,613 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost and Fondue (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 1,622 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clobbered by Camembert (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 1,491 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Brie or Not To Brie (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #4) 3.82 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days of Wine and Roquefort (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #5) 3.85 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Gouda as Dead (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Cheddar or Worse (A Cheese Shop Mystery #7) 3.92 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Brie or Not to Brie: Cheese Shop Mystery, Book 4 by Avery Aames (Goodreads Author), Brooke Hoover (narrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost and Fondue / Clobbered in Camembert / To Brie or Not to Brie (Mass Market Paperbacks, Cheese Shop Mystery series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Avery Aames wrote a new blog post Kimchi Jeon (Kimchi Pancake) #recipe from Molly MacRae I jumped at this recipe because we love kimchi. We first cameacross the salted, seasoned, fermented vegetable Korean dish in the 80s in theproduce se Read more of this blog post »
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“Life is great. Cheese makes it better.”
― Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye

tags: cheese, humor

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Feb 03, 2011 02:58PM

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message 6: by Deborah

Feb 02, 2011 11:40AM

Hi!
Why haven't you claimed your author profile?

Just go to the bottom of this page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... and click the link where it asks, "is this you? Let us know"

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message 5: by Lori

Aug 29, 2010 05:07PM

Hi Avery, thanks for the friend request. Happy to meet you!

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message 4: by Penelope

Aug 22, 2010 03:20PM

I, too, enjoy the word play in the title The Long Quiche Goodbye! Wish I could think of something like that.

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message 3: by Zoe

Jul 19, 2010 10:59AM

Greetings from Athens, Greece! Thank you so much for adding me. Well, like many other readers,I can't wait to read "The Long Quiche Goodbye" (by the way, smart word play! )Judging by its beautiful cover, it must be a great book!

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message 2: by Margaret

Jul 12, 2010 07:21PM