![]() ![]() ![]() Just about every chef in attendance has a reason to hate one of their number-a truly despicable man who has stolen one’s wife, one’s job, and one’s assistant, plus a recipe from just about everyone else. Keep that motivation in mind, because his desire for that recipe-plus his absolute need to get back on the scheduled train to return to NYC as soon as his speech is finished, is Wolfe’s driving motivation throughout the whole story.Īnd what a story it is. But that’s just the excuse, the real reason-and it so Wolfe-is that one of the chefs has cooked a dish of sausages that was one of the great culinary treats of Wolfe’s life and he wants to try and get the recipe out of him so he can enjoy it in his own home. The event that gets Wolfe out of his house is the invitation to give a speech to the fifteen greatest chef’s in the world on the wonders of American cooking. ![]() This is one of the very best Nero Wolfe novels. We also get to see the extra burden this places on Archie Goodwin. This time, the whole book takes place outside the Brownstone and the reader gets to see just how strong a phobia being out of his own controlled environment is for the detective. It’s a truism about Nero Wolf that he doesn’t like to leave his house even though he does leave it in two of the first four novels. ![]()
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