Rochelle Bilow Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Biographies & Memoirs

Rochelle Bilow is an American author and food writer. She loves buttery toast as her favorite food and resides in northern Vermont.

She has graduated from The French Culinary Institute. She has been a line cook, a baker, and a social media manager for the Cooking Light and Bon Appétit magazines. She has also appeared on the television show Beat Bobby Flay in a 2014 episode.

Rochelle has written articles about everything from restaurants to home cooking to spirits, groceries, food news, trends, and products. They have been published in many different national publications that extend to Food & Wine, Eating Well, Serious Eats, The Spruce Eats, and The Kitchn.

Her first book written was titled The Call of the Farm. It was released in 2014. Her fictional debut was made with the release of Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year, which came out in 2023 from Berkley Romance. She followed that romantic comedy up with another, titled Effie Olsen’s Summer Special.

The author was educated at Le Moyne College where she graduated with a BA in communications and The French Culinary Institute, where she received her Grande Diplome in Classic Culinary Arts. She works as a commerce editor for Serious Eats, coming up with stories that are about tools, techniques, equipment, and home cooking. She has been writing for over a decade about food professionally and has been testing out kitchen equipment ever since 2021.

She has worked as a prep cook, line cook and baker before going into magazine and digital food journalism. She also worked in upstate New York on a small organic farm as a cook. In addition to being a great chef, she is an ultra-trail runner.

Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year is the first fictional book from Rochelle Bilow. It has been named one of the top Romance Books to Look Out For in 2023 by Buzzfeed, and was picked by Paste Magazine as one of the Most Anticipated Contemporary Romance Books of 2023.

An American food writer of about thirty something years old decides that she’s going to go to a village in Scotland and live there for one year. She has always wanted to write a cookbook and now she has the dream about ready to go. She is also about to find inspiration and a whole lot more as she encounters a handsome Scotsman that she is not able to resist.

Ruby Spencer has decided that she’s going to live in a mini cottage for one year in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. She has three reasons for doing so up to this point. She wants to write a cookbook that will be a best seller, she wants to drink tons of whisky, and she wants to do her best to figure out what is coming up in her life next.

She doesn’t know what she should expect either, especially after she makes a sudden decision that is based off a map of Scotland located in her apartment in Manhattan. She might not know what is coming, but she knows that it is about time in her life that she takes on an adventure.

From the second that Ruby comes to Thistlecross, everything about it creeps into her heart. There’s green scenery everywhere, cottages that can only be described as cozy, and the local pub where it’s doing its level best to keep its doors open. Everything about it is just charming without exception.

Ruby loves talking to the locals, coming up with pop-up dinners and starts seeing a future before her that is able to last beyond the adventurous year. She knows that Brochan, the handsome handyman, keeps on coming to her cottage to repair things, and that she doesn’t mind at all. Ruby thought she was done with men, but something about this bearded Scot is calling to her in a way that she cannot deny.

Ruby is getting closer than every to Brochan and learning more about the village and all of its tradition. Then she finds out there are actually plans to try and get the pub and turn it into a chain restaurant from America.

Ruby also finds that she might come up against a choice that is impossible where she has to decide between loyalty, love, and the way that things are done in the Highlands. Will she be able to figure out what to do? Will she make the right decision? Read this book from Rochelle Bilow to find out!

Effie Olsen’s Summer Special is the second fictional book to come out from Rochelle Bilow. If you have been looking for a sweet romantic comedy to read, then this is the perfect book for you.

Best friends from childhood promised that they would never again speak. But when a summer reunion happens and takes them by surprise, things might just be back on again.

Main character Effie Olsen didn’t think that the small island in Maine where she grew up would be the place that she would settle down. Now she’s coming back from working as a professional chef for sixteen years in a bunch of distant countries for one summer that she promises herself will a singular event. One and done!

Luckily, Brown Butter is one of the top restaurants in the United States, and they’re looking for a sous chef. Effie wants to get a chance to redeem herself once more. Her previous job was totally torched, but she also is worried about being able to settle in a place that brings back things from the past to her mind.

She might just change her mind thanks to a chance encounter with Ernie Callahan. The two used to be friends, and now he works in the same restaurant. She’s reminded of what she’s been missing while going on swims in the early morning with him and playing games of truth or dare late at night.

Ernie knows her very well. His smile is also inviting, something that draws her in completely. However, Effie needs to keep a secret about Brown Butter if she wants to keep her job there. Can she figure out how to do so and let herself go after the perfect guy that she’s always wanted? Will she be able to have the perfect summer? Read this book from Rochelle Bilow to find out!