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Carol McManus is a entrepreneur, restaurant owner and most of all a mother of 5 children. The owner of Espresso Love, a popular café on Martha’s Vineyard, MA, Carol has been putting food on the table since she was a child who hijacked her mother’s new Sunbeam electric mixer.

Cooking came instinctively to her, and preparing meals for her five children was a natural extension of that. Her life has always encompassed preparing and serving food, she has also spent years studying the dynamics of families.

She has a degree in elementary education and early childhood development.

It would take a personal crisis to drive her directly into the food business. In 1992, she divorced her husband who was a policeman and moved to Martha’s Vineyard. Being a single parent facing bankruptcy, she borrowed enough money from one of her children to open a tiny coffee shop in the corner of a hotel on Martha’s Vineyard.

She took everything she knew about food and feeding people and began to develop an interesting and innovative menu. A few short years later, she bought a restaurant in Edgartown, and turned her tiny coffee shop into a successful large café, serving breakfast and lunch.

Her restaurant, Espresso Love, is now a full-sized garden café featuring many of the recipes in the cookbook
– including the famous Presidential Muffins she served to President Bill Clinton. She has also hosted Cooking with Carol on cable television, and has been a regular guest chef on a News Channel 12, a Connecticut television affiliate.

McManus has used her extensive travel times – she goes each year to study cooking in Provence with a wellknown chef – to collect a range of recipes that are easy, appealing and diverse. She is regularly asked to speak on the subject of family meals, and has given cooking lessons to children in the local elementary school.

Carol decided to conduct a blog tour to celebrate her cookbook, TableTalk and below are the places on the web you can visit to read more about her wonderful recipes and this charming lady.

You can purchase Carol’s cookbook Table Talk.

Here at Key Business Partners – I have tried a few of the recipes in Carol’s cookbook and I have to say….read it here.

Julie Roads at Writing Roads wrote about her inspiration from Carol’s cookbook and the recipes she has created for her family.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez at Folkheart Press talked about Carol’s book in her post,
Food Family Love come together in this new book.

The Pop Art Diva wrote a post about Carol’s cookbook, Table Talk and wants to tell you she LOVED the Baked Chicken recipe.

Claudia Meydrech described her experience with Carol’s cookbook on her blog, Ebooksandbookreviews

Anne Coleman (mother of 7) wrote her thoughts about Table Talk on her blog, Cooking with Anne

Carolyn Howard Johnson displays a book review of Table Talk on her blog, The New Book Review

Hear Carol’s interview with Angela of Frugal WAHM and talk about how parents can create some delicious and healthful recipes all while striving to regain the family closeness again by cooking together.

Listen to the interview with Carol with Geraldine Jensen of Families Online Radio talking about eating food together as a family.