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Title: Scarpetta's Winter Table by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0941711420 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.92
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Holiday Gift for Particia Cornwell Fans
Comment: Just in time for holiday shoppers seeking that perfect gift for the legions of adoring readers of author Patricia Cornwell's crime novels featuring Virginia's intrepid Chief Medical Examiner Dr.Kay Scarpetta, this absolutely beguiling little cookbook (in the form of a warmhearted novella) is jampacked with "shoot-from-the-hip" recipes. The opening chapters are set around a traditional day-after-Christmas gathering of Scarpetta's small "adopted family" consisting of niece Lucy Farinelli, special agent of the ATF, and Captain Pete Marino of the Richmond police. This garrulous party features MARINO'S CAUSE-OF-DEATH EGGNOG and SCARPETTA'S HOLIDAY PIZZA. One of many things that make this happy-go-lucky little collection memorable is that the pizza, omelet, soup, stew, pasta and dessert recipes are flexible and diabolically plotted to utilize the cornucopia of leftovers commonly overflowing shelves of post-holiday refrigerators. These savory dishes are mostly down-home, mouthwatering table fare, well-calculated to delight any number of unexpected-but welcome-guests who are the lagniappe of the wintry season. While Aunt Kay is fulfilling her annual seasonal duty with a visit to her mother and sister in Miami, Lucy whomps up a pitcher of LUCY'S BLOODY MARYS as the apertif for an eggy brunch of LUCY'S FRIENDLY GRILL which she serves the merry gathering of her off-duty ATF buddies. For dinner, she cooks the ravenous snowbound agents a kettle full of SCARPETTA'S WHOLESOME CHICKEN SOUP. Scarpetta's brief annual Miami pilgrimage rekindles painful vestiges of familial dysfunction which find healthy outlet in SCARPETTA'S BAD MOOD PASTA PRIMAVERA, a palatable pourboire of kitchen psychotherapy. The episodes recounting Marino's adventures as the unwitting overnight surrogate father of a 10-year-old male snowball terrorist, inadvertently-abandoned by his harried, snow-marooned single mother, are highlighted by a macho supper of MARINO'S LAST MINUTE CHILI and breakfast of MARINO'S SOUTHERN-STYLE NEW JERSEY OMELET. Serendipitously, we encounter SCARPETTA'S CHILDHOOD KEY LIME PIE and a to-die-for batch of LUCY'S FELONIOUS COOKIES...and Kay's super-secret cappuccino bread. In this fashion, the lighthearted little narrative gambols merrily through ten chapters ending with SCARPETTA'S FAMOUS STEW, which the kindly forensic pathologist concocts to celebrate her homecoming just in time to sabotage the gang's best New Year's diet resolutions. Reviewed by Brewster Milton Robertson
Rating: 4
Summary: Great gift for Scarpetta Fans
Comment: Fans of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series are in for a treat with Scarpetta's Winter Table - a novella and cookbook that picks up where the last Scarpetta book, Point of Origin, left off.
Cornwell brings Kay, Lucy, and Marino together at Kay's house on the day after Christmas. It's interesting to see how each of these characters struggles with the ups and downs of the holidays. Readers get a rather rare glimpse of Kay's softer side in a domestic (and very charming) holiday setting. And aside from this book's unique look at some of the Kay Scarpetta series characters, it's also a wonderful cookbook with great recipes, many of which will delight year-round. After all, Pete Marino's last-minute chili isn't just for Christmas!
The suggested retail price seems a little steep for a novella, but this just might be the perfect gift for Scarpetta fans. So fix yourself one of Lucy's Bloody Mary's, and give Scarpetta's Winter Table - and the chicken soup recipe in particular - a chance this holiday season. With this heartwarming and delicious combination, you won't be disappointed.
Rating: 2
Summary: it is a fun read but not much substance..
Comment: ... If I had to spend [money]to get this book, I would be quite disappointed because it is so short. It seems to me the author put this together in a hurry to make some money. It is not bad but not much in there. I enjoyed reading it but the plot was a bit [stale.]
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Title: Food To Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen by Patricia Cornwell, Marlene Brown ISBN: 0399147993 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Life's Little Fable (Picture Books) by Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Barbara Leonard Gibson ISBN: 0399233164 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Unofficial Patricia Cornwell Companion: A Guide to the Bestselling Author's Life and Work by George W. Beahm ISBN: 0312307322 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399149325 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Southern Cross by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0425172546 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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