Here’s a pair of authors who turned the adage “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” into two sweet reads.Books: Two intimate portraits of the gambling life

In between are countless gems: Alice B. Toklas’s baroque recipe for lobster, Richard Olney’s meditation on pate and Edna Lewis’s poignant description of killing hogs on her family farm.Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of

FICTION Dear Catastrophe Waitress, by Brendan Halpin . Two lost souls, both the subject of their now-famous exes’ sneering rock songs, struggle to put the past behind them and find true love at last.New arrivals