Someone is killing the great chefs of America
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Little, Brown
Publication Date:
[1993]
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First edition
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English
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This delicious new souffle from the authors of the international best-seller Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe takes readers behind the scenes at the White House kitchen, into the test kitchen at a leading U.S. food magazine, under the tables at the hottest restaurants in New York, and up to the finish line for the murderous competition at the International Culinary Olympics.
After the gruesome deaths of the great chefs of Europe, the glamorous Natasha O'Brien returns home to become editor of a new magazine, American Cuisine. Turning her back on painful memories as well as heavy sauces, she's committed to helping America rediscover its palate by focusing on natural cooking, from Cal-Ital to nouvelle Tex-Mex. There's one problem, though: someone is killing the great chefs of America.
As the police round up the usual suspects, Natasha finds herself cheek to cheek with her ex-husband, Maximilian (Mr. Fast Food) Ogden - a.k.a. Millie - as they try to put aside their culinary differences to establish their innocence and find the killer. Despite Natasha's determination not to let history repeat itself - and not to fall in love with Millie again - American chefs are found dead in a series of brutal tableaux that could only have been conceived by that psychopathic gourmand, the legendary Achille van Golk. But Achille is dead - n'est-ce pas?
The past begins to intrude upon the present. Faster than bistro food captured New York, Natasha turns up on someone's menu as the next victim. But who is the culprit? Is it the exotic Mrs. Nakamura, head of Fuji Food, who has an insatiable appetite for Millie? The neurotic food critic Roy Drake, who has made an art of killing chefs - though heretofore only with his poison pen? The prim Miss Beauchamp, a secretary scorned, who was secretly in love with Achille? Or is it that most dangerous monster of all - the fat person inside every thin person who is desperate to escape?
All is revealed as the book reaches its hilarious high-calorie climax at the Culinary Olympics in Paris, where foodies of the world become part of the obsessive plot to kill Natasha.
After the gruesome deaths of the great chefs of Europe, the glamorous Natasha O'Brien returns home to become editor of a new magazine, American Cuisine. Turning her back on painful memories as well as heavy sauces, she's committed to helping America rediscover its palate by focusing on natural cooking, from Cal-Ital to nouvelle Tex-Mex. There's one problem, though: someone is killing the great chefs of America.
As the police round up the usual suspects, Natasha finds herself cheek to cheek with her ex-husband, Maximilian (Mr. Fast Food) Ogden - a.k.a. Millie - as they try to put aside their culinary differences to establish their innocence and find the killer. Despite Natasha's determination not to let history repeat itself - and not to fall in love with Millie again - American chefs are found dead in a series of brutal tableaux that could only have been conceived by that psychopathic gourmand, the legendary Achille van Golk. But Achille is dead - n'est-ce pas?
The past begins to intrude upon the present. Faster than bistro food captured New York, Natasha turns up on someone's menu as the next victim. But who is the culprit? Is it the exotic Mrs. Nakamura, head of Fuji Food, who has an insatiable appetite for Millie? The neurotic food critic Roy Drake, who has made an art of killing chefs - though heretofore only with his poison pen? The prim Miss Beauchamp, a secretary scorned, who was secretly in love with Achille? Or is it that most dangerous monster of all - the fat person inside every thin person who is desperate to escape?
All is revealed as the book reaches its hilarious high-calorie climax at the Culinary Olympics in Paris, where foodies of the world become part of the obsessive plot to kill Natasha.
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