The Kitchen Front is the story of a cooking competition and women supporting women on the home front during WWII.
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Fiction, Women Supporting Women, Cooking Competition, Friendship, WWII, England
Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. Today, I’m sharing a favorite WWII “home front” story, The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan.
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My Summary:
A cooking competition meets WWII. Facing bombings, food shortages, and rationing, morale is low among the housewives of Britain. The BBC launches a cooking contest for a show called Kitchen Front. Although the first prize is a coveted chance to be the first female co-host of the show, four very different women discover a more valuable prize to be gained: friendship.
“The best gift one could ever have: friendship.”
“…however bad things may seem, with the help, understanding, and camaraderie of friends, we can make the world better for all of us.”
Have you ever entered a cooking competition? Do you watch cooking shows?
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Hi, Carol – I have never entered a cooking competition and I have not watched an actual cooking show. But I 100% agree about the incredible gift of friendship!
One of my very fav themes!
I admit I love the cover and the story line really appeals to me, but I am leery of this one after the awful Chilbury Ladies Choir and all the praise-to-the-skies it got.
Kitchen Front and Wedding Dress Sewing Circle are similar in tone and themes and are my two fav of hers. Chilbury had that one weird storyline that I tried to overlook!
Chilbury was full of stuff that would never have happened like sharing secrets! lol I might give in some day
It was the weird baby stealing storyline that I didn’t enjoy. The rest of it was ok. Then her next one about Spies was awful in my opinion and I wondered if I’d ever read her again. Then when Kitchen Front and Wedding Dress came out, she redeemed herself by holding off on bizarre storylines!
I fogot that story line! Yikes’ Well, good to hear on her others. Maybe I’ll give her a 2nd chance–if I’m desperate for an audio lol
Sounds nice and cozy with the back drop of WWII.
It’s a lovely friendship story!