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If you like rom-coms and cheesecake, you're in luck

Two nonfiction food writers. Two novels about the foibles of the New York culinary scene. Two protagonists with strong feelings about truffle oil. Here, the similarities between 'Food Person,' the quippy, rom-com-ready first novel by Adam Roberts, and Mark Kurlansky's meandering 'Cheesecake' end. For Roberts — best known for his blog-turned-newsletter the Amateur Gourmet — dietary habits reflect individual character. What you eat, and refuse to eat, indicates whether you are a person who values nourishment, pleasure and community or one who seeks self-improvement and power. In 'Cheesecake,' Kurlansky uses food — notably, the evolution of an ancient recipe for cheesecake — to explore a quirky cast of characters who frequent a Greek diner in Manhattan.