"In 1930's Ireland, beautiful cook Bernadine was married off to the local schoolteacher after her family were unable to raise a dowry for her to marry her true love, Michael. Seventy years on, her granddaughter Tressa, a New York food writer, returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome new husband Dan out of late-thirties panic instead of love. During the first year of her marriage, Tressa distracts herself from her stay-or-go dilemma by working her way through grandmother's recipe book, searching for solace and answers in the preparation of these wholesome dishes"--Publisher.