Soul Kitchen: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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A sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.

Liquor has becomeone of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’swildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, MilfordGoodman walks into their kitchen—he’s spent the last ten years in Angola Prison formurdering his boss, a wealthy New Orleans restaurateur, but has recently been exoneratedon new evidence and released. Rickey remembers him as an ingenious chef and hireshim on the spot.

When a pill-pushing doctor and a Carnival scion talk Rickey intoconsulting at the restaurant they’re opening in one of the city’s “floating casinos,”Rickey recommends Milford for the head chef position and stays on to supervise. Butsoon Rickey finds himself medicating a kitchen injury with the doctor’s wares, andG-man grows tired of holding down the fort at Liquor alone. As the new restaurantmoves toward its opening, Rickey learns that Milford’s past is inextricably linkedwith one of the project’s backers, a man whose intentions begin to seem more andmore sinister.