Love and assault with a frying pan

You might not think that novels involving food could get better than Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but a lot has been written since you were six.

Each month, the Kansas City Library assembles a list of recommendations tied to holidays or the birthdays of famous authors. To celebrate Culinary Arts Month, Kansas City librarian Angela Kille has put together a “Fiction for Foodies” summer reading list.