Re: Mysteries that would delight cooks?
- From: sandra <sandrajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:19:11 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 31, 2:43 pm, Fire Tiger <RecreationalPo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a brother that loves to cook. He was trained as a chef in Vale
and has never lost the love of the art. He hates working in a
commercial kitchen but loves the art of cooking and cooking for family
and friends. He's a school bureaucrat these days but everyone loves
him to cook for their parties. He loves their appreciation and not
cleaning up afterwards. In addition to the old saying that every
mother should have a doctor and a lawyer as an off-spring, a trained
chef should be added to that list. My mother has never had to cook
for a family get-together since and everyone eagerly looks forward to
what culinary treat is in store for us. Anyway...
Last night, we were watching a episode of the A&E Nero Wolfe and my
brother laughed and loved how Nero and Fritz argued over food (the
juniper berry argument in "The Doorbell Rang"). Afterwards, he turned
me and said if mysteries had more of that, he'd be a mystery fan like
me.
Are there any mysteries where cooking is central to them? Any sleuth
that is a chef? Recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Scott
Hi Scott- whilst not actually food mysteries, I can highly recommend
two Italian mystery series where the detectives (and their authors)
love their food- Andrea Camilleri writes Inspector Montalbano
mysteries, based in Sicily. The prose is robust, and the earthy
descriptions of the Sicilian food are really something. The late
Michael Dibdin has Inspector Aurelio Zen, with every book based in a
different part of Italy, and each featuring the food of the area. I
really enjoy mysteries/thrillers where they are strongly related to
the society in which they are based (say Ian Rankin's Edinburgh,
Mankell's Skane, etc) and Dibdin & Camilleri make me long to be in
Italy each time I read them Your brother may enjoy
Writing this has reminded me of another Sicilian book- covering
history, travel & food, art, crime & travel- Midnight in Sicily by
Peter Robb. The author, who lived in southern Italy for some time,
went to Palermo in the 1990s to write about the assassination of the
two Palermo magistrates, Falcone & Borsellino, the subsequent trial
of former Prime MinisterGuilio Andreotti for ordering the killing of a
journalist & for his links with the Sicilian Mafia, and the society of
southern Italy in general. Again, a very robust writer & well worth
reading
Sandra
in the backwater of Adelaide
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