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Kim Barnouin continues the story of a vegan chef and her carnivorous restaurateur boyfriend with the sequel, Skinny Bitch Gets Hitched. The summary says: "For the second time in just a few short months, Clementine Cooper's professional reputation hinges on one restaurant review. Clementine's No Crap Cafe is poised to score the Holy Grail of publicity - a mention in the New York Times Sunday travel section - if Clem's veggietastic lasagna can bowl over the food critic. Clem has no time for distractions. Or surprises. But when her meat-eating millionaire boyfriend Zach Jeffries shocks her with a sweet and romantic marriage proposal, of course she says yes! Now she has to plan the most important menu of her life while fending off her domineering future mother-in-law's extravagant plans for the wedding. As if there wasn't enough on her plate, Clem decides to open a second restaurant on her parents' farm - Clem's No Crap Outpost - against Zach's advice. Just when she needs his support the most, Zach grows distant. The only person who really seems to understand is Clem's friend and biggest competition, the cute vegan chef Alexander Orr. Putting out fires in the kitchen is easy - but in her relationship? Suddenly, her time with Alexander feels . . . hotter . . . than usual, and Clem starts to wonder if the charming carnivore she's engaged to is really the man she should spend her life with." Skinny Bitch Gets Hitched is out in May 2014.
Skinny Bitch In Love - Kim Barnouin (2013)
Clementine Cooper is a vegan chef who has bagged a job cooking at one of the most sought-after restaurants in LA. But when she is sabotaged by a fellow co-worker and blacklisted from every restaurant in LA, she needs to change her game plan. Instead of moping around, Clementine opens her own business offering vegan cooking classes and personal chef services called Skinny Bitch. The business is off to a hopping start but it all comes to a halt when a handsome and extremely arrogant man opens up a restaurant right across the street called the Silver Steer - complete with a dead animal on its sign. Clementine isn't going to stand for anything getting in her way of success, so she confronts the owner, only to find that he's more handsome than she expected. Of course, falling for a meat-eating man who doesn't care about his carbon footprint would be so wrong, but why does it feel so right? Follow Clementine on her journey to fulfill her dream of owning her own restaurant and possibly finding true love in the process - you won't be sorry you did. (AS)
Nutrition expert and former model Kim Barnouin is adding a novel to her range of Skinny Bitch books. The summary of Skinny Bitch in Love says: "Twenty-six-year-old Clementine Cooper is an ambitious sous chef at a hot vegan restaurant in Santa Monica. When an important food critic visits the restaurant, a backstabbing coworker sabotages her vegan dish by adding butter. Fired from her job and blackballed in L.A., Clementine has hit rock bottom. Not one to wallow, she decides to launch her own cooking school and personal chef business called Skinny Bitch. Every day, Clementine passes a space for lease in her neighborhood and fantasizes about opening her own restaurant. Fifteen tables. A juice bar. Cali-meets-Moroccan decor. She plans to work hard, save money, and buy the space. But on the first day of her cooking classes, she discovers that millionaire restaurateur Zach Jeffries is opening a steakhouse in the same space! Zach is the antithesis of everything she stands for, but she's incredibly attracted to him. And it seems like he might be attracted to her too, since he immediately enrols in her cooking school. Can two people who are so fundamentally different actually find love? As Clementine rebuilds her life with new friendships, romance, and recipes, she finds that there are healthy choices to make both in and out of the kitchen."