When Portia Cuthcart was seven years old, her mother and grandmother knew she had "the knowing." The knowing is what her grandmother called her intuition that led her to bake and cook what was needed by the customers of her café, The Glass Kitchen. Portia and her sisters end up living with her grandmother after their parents die, and Portia learns to cook with her grandmother. After her grandmother's death, she marries and her husband's disapproval of her instinct makes her learn to suppress it until it nearly disappears. Fast forward three years, Portia's husband has divorced her in favor of his pregnant girlfriend, her ex-best friend. Portia moves to New York from Texas to join her sisters who made the move years before. She decides to live in the garden apartment of the building her aunt left to the three sisters. Olivia and Cordelia have already sold their apartments in the building to Gabriel Kane who also wants to buy Portia's. She backed out of the sale at the last minute and intends to live there. Soon, she finds that she can no longer suppress the knowing and begins to make plans to open a restaurant.
Complete with recipes, The Glass Kitchen is a whimsical story of magic, food, family and relationships. The conflicts between Gabriel and his daughters strike a cord, and the relationship between the Cuthcart sisters rings true as well.
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