It's amazing, when you think about it, how many authors seem to be obsessed with food, and work it in to their tales.
I've been researching food as it relates to detective stories, for instance, for an eventual book to be called The Gumshoe Gourmet. No matter how hard-boiled the main character, no matter how fast the action, there's always time to stop for lunch. Even Sherlock Holmes did it.
The ultimate in this, of course, was Nero Wolf, who only worked at all to support his three passions (food, orchids, and books). Rex Stout, the author of the series, went so far as to actually publishe [i]The Nero Wolf Cookbook[i].
More recently there are several series going in which the protagonists are cooks, caterers, or the proprietors of gourmet food stores. And, in one case, she's the food writer for a major newspaper.
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