01403cam a2200313 4500 333903766 TxAuBib 20100720120000.0 091117s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009047594 9780385340854 0385340850 DLC DLC TxAuBib Goodman, Allegra. The cookbook collector : a novel / Allegra Goodman. 1st ed. New York : Dial Press, 2010. 352. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily's boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess's boyfriends, not so much, as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. 20120531. Sisters Fiction. Women booksellers Fiction. Women executives Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Rare books Fiction. Domestic fiction. California Fiction. Cambridge (Mass) Fiction.