02262cam a2200445 i 4500 1072308552 TxAuBib 20231211120000.0 220930s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022045590 9780593538241 hardcover 0593538242 hardcover 9780593715871 paperback 059371587X paperback TxAuBib rda Zhang, C Pam, author Land of milk and honey. Land of milk and honey / C Pam Zhang. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. ©2023. 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"-- Provided by publisher. A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef's boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate. 20231211. Women cooks Fiction. Food Fiction. Food supply Fiction. Pleasure Fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. Elite (Social sciences) Fiction. Social classes Fiction. Novels. fast Dystopian fiction. Science fiction. Psychological fiction. fast Novels. fast Romans. rvmgf