A thriller and love story that has gripped readers across Europe,
filled with culinary exploits and sexual adventures, and includes 16
recipes
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of
Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging
stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the
rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan, a
Tamil dishwasher and undiscovered culinary genius, and Andrea, a
stunningly beautiful waitress, find themselves out of work and needing
to find another way to survive. After Maravan seduces Andrea by cooking
her a dinner that fuses the aphrodisiac recipes of his ancestors with
the necromancy of molecular gastronomy, Andrea hits upon a business
idea: romantic catering for couples. But even culinary magic can't ward
off recession and when their new company begins to struggle, they are
forced to enter into a much more unsavory business, plunging them deep
into an underworld where murder and sex feed otherwise unquenchable
thirsts.