When Alice agreed to appear in a reality cooking show with her father,
she had no idea she'd find herself in the middle of a mystery! Will
Alice and her new friends be able to save the show? A light-hearted and
funny middle grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly
Hunt.
Alice Fleck's father is a culinary historian, and for as long as she can
remember, she's been helping him recreate meals from the past -- a hobby
she prefers to keep secret from kids her age. But when her father's new
girlfriend enters them into a cooking competition at a Victorian
festival, Alice finds herself and her hobby thrust into the spotlight.
And that's just the first of many surprises awaiting her. On arriving at
the festival, Alice learns that she and her father are actually
contestants on Culinary Combat, a new reality TV show hosted by Tom
Truffleman, the most famous and fierce judge on TV! And to make matters
worse, she begins to suspect that someone is at work behind the scenes,
sabotaging the competition.
It's up to Alice, with the help of a few new friends, to find the
saboteur before the entire competition is ruined, all the while tackling
some of the hardest cooking challenges of her life . . . for the whole
world to see.