Let's Cook Like Scarpetta!

Food To Die For: Secrets From Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen by Patricia Cornwell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I was searching for a recipe the other day and decided to review Patricia Cornwell's Food to Die For and, as I thought, there the sauce was, timeless and beautifully photographed.

I bought and read the book around 2003 and read it without duplicating any of the recipes in my own kitchen.

I reread Food to Die For a few years ago and recorded it on Goodreads. I had some Key limes at that time and made the pie recipe. I remember thinking how wonderful the book was to read, how beautiful the illustrations, how lovely to see the recipes for the foods Kay Scarpetta cooks in the stories. Then I re-shelved it.

Paninoteca by Scarpetta (Image from Facebook)

Yesterday, I remembered a sauce I want to mix and pulled the book out again. Bev's Kicked by a Horse Cocktail Sauce for summer steamed shrimp is exactly what the the occasion calls for. And with that, I began to read Cornwell's recipes once more.

I've bought at least a hundred cookbooks since i bought this one. Recipes not nearly as classical or as classy. I think I'll make a summer of it. Like I did two years ago with Cooked by Michael Pollan. I hope that, by the time school starts in the fall, I will have tried out each of these beautiful, luscious recipes on either my family or myself alone.

Oh, and after my latest rereading and comparing these dishes to those in recent cookbooks, I'm upgrading To Die For to four stars. **** Sorry to have taken so long. I own the whole Scarpetta thriller series but, for the life of me, can't remember if Kay still cooks in the novels. I hope she does. I guess I'll have to dig them out and see.



View all my reviews