A delectable comedy of manners about cooking ambition and friendship set in the food world as
a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous (and
famously chaotic) Hollywood starlet. Isabella Pasternack is a food person. She revels in the
beauty of a perfectly cooked egg she daydreams about her first meal at Chez Panisse and every
inch of her tiny apartment teems with cookbooks from Prune to Cooking by Hand to Roast Chicken
and Other Stories . What Isabella is not unfortunately is a gainfully employed person. In the
wake of a disastrous live-streamed soufflé demonstration Isabella is summarily fired from her
job at a digital food magazine and must quickly find a way to keep herself in buckwheat and
anchovy paste. When offered the opportunity to ghostwrite a cookbook for Molly Babcock the
once-beloved television actress now mired in scandal Isabella warily accepts. Unfortunately
Molly quickly proves herself to be a nightmare collaborator: hungover flakey shallow
and—worst of all—indifferent to food. But between Molly’s bizarre late-night texts goofy
confessions and impromptu road trips Isabella reluctantly begins to see Molly’s charms. Can
Isabella corral Molly out of the gossip rags and into the kitchen? Can she find the key to
Molly’s heart and stomach? Or will Isabella’s devotion to her culinary idols and Molly’s
monstrous ego send the entire cookbook—and both of their careers—up in flames? A
mouth-watering hilarious debut peppered with insider food world detail—the real writers behind
celebrity chef cookbooks the hot restaurants that run on the backs of their sous-chefs the
secret to perfect blinis á la Russe —Adam Roberts' Food Person is a literary soufflé—a
deceptively light deliciously rich showstopping confection.
