> 1. The protagonist was forever cooking and eating,
and the food didn't
even
> seem appealing. These days this "hobby" pops up all
over the place in
> mysteries, which I blame on Parker.
>
A thought on the stair: Nero Wolfe's personal live-in cook
and rigid meal schedule never (well, maybe once or twice)
bothered me, any more than the yellow pajamas, personal
orchid gardener on the brownstone roof, globe in the library,
and the rest of the setup. But Stout never took that foodie
stuff seriously!
Joy, who refers you to the amazon.com kitchenware user
reviews, should you
ever need to be disabused of the notion that only
fiction readers are
disputatious
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