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Scarpetta doesn't just chitchat with Benton Wesley before their Hilton Head holiday in Point of Origin -- she instructs him to stock up on South Carolina pecans, tomatoes, and Vidalia onions! Snowbound in a tiny cottage by the sea in Cause of Death, Kay taps into her Italian heritage to celebrate New Year's with a delectable lasagne for Lucy and Marino.Fans of Kay Scarpetta know that this crime solver extraordinaire unwinds and recharges in the kitchen. After a heroic day on the job, she often escapes home to delicious food and wine with family and friends.Inspired by the dozens of food scenes in Kay's kitchen and favorite restaurants, Food to Die For is a cookbook tailor-made for Scarpetta fans. Among the criminally good recipes: -- Miami-Style Chili with Beer (All That Remains)-- Grilled Grouper with Butter and Key Lime Juice (Cruel & Unusual)-- Jack Daniel's Chocolate-Pecan Pie (The Body Farm)-- Lasagne with Marinara Sauce and Porcini Mushrooms (Cause of Death)-- Bev's Lump Crab Cakes (Unnatural Exposure)-- Kay's Grilled Pizza with Sausage, Pepperoni, and Three Cheeses (Black Notice)-- Also recipes from Lucy, Marino, and Rose, as well as from restaurants in Richmond, Washington, D.C., New York, London, and Paris.Brimming with full-color photographs of Scarpetta-inspired culinary creations, Food to Die For adds a new dimension to the novels that keep us reading through the night.
Author Notes
Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida on June 9, 1956. When she was nine years old, her mother tried to give her and her two brothers to evangelist Billy Graham and his wife to care for. For a while the children lived with missionaries since their mother was unable to care for them.
After graduating from Davidson College in 1979, she worked for The Charlotte Observer eventually covering the police beat and winning an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. Her award-winning biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of Billy Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. While working for the medical examiner, she began to write novels. Although the award-winning novel Postmortem was initially rejected by seven different publishers, once it was published in 1990 it became the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year.
She is the author of the Kay Scarpetta series, the Andy Brazil series, and the Winston Garano series. She has also written two cookbooks entitled Scarpetta's Winter Table and Food to Die For; a children's book entitled Life's Little Fable; and non-fiction works like Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed.
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Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
No, not a thriller unless you really like good food. Cornwell offers some of Kay Scarpetta's favorites. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
How better to unwind from prodding the dead all day than to feed living, breathing friends and relatives? Bestselling mystery author Patricia Cornwell's Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen offers favorite recipes from the intrepid medical examiner (Cornwell's series heroine), Scarpetta's colleagues Marino and Rose, niece Lucy and various restaurants. Marlene Brown, Cornwell presents dishes from her mystery titles, preceded by brief relevant excerpts from each one. Italian sausage pizza from Postmortem is followed by 28 more feasts, including Pollo al Limone (shared by Scarpetta and Wesley Benton as they tracked a New York serial killer on Christmas) and Marino's Breakfast Bagel Sandwich from Point of Origin. Sections on olive oil, pasta and tomatoes, lists of the contents of Kay's pantry and freezer and 40 full-color photographs vivify her culinary secrets. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Those who look forward to each new adventure of Patricia Cornwell's fictional medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, know that in her off-hours she's a serious cook. Readers left salivating from her menus now have Food to Die For, a volume of recipes for bringing to life some of those fictional feasts. Cornwell and Marlene Brown's easy-to-follow recipes tilt toward foods Italian, but there are plenty of simple American dishes, too, such as Miami-style chili with beer and barbecued ribs. Cornwell's serious fans will find pasta and pizza to satisfy their appetites here, but most of the recipes require a bit of kitchen dexterity to execute properly.
Library Journal Review
No, not a thriller unless you really like good food. Cornwell offers some of Kay Scarpetta's favorites.(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.