As rain clouds brought intermittent showers to Long Beach Island Saturday afternoon, Denise Mauthe, a first-time cookbook author, was scurrying under a canopy set up on the stones next to the Cheese Shoppe in Surf City, readying the final details for the book launch party for her newly published cookbook Over the Bridge.
As Mauthe uncovered platters of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres and arranged the platters just so, her husband, Chris, unpacked a box of the books and placed a stack of the hardcover, glossy paper cookbooks on the corner of the table.
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