Today I bring you another guest
post, this time from fellow Santa Cruz mystery writer, Nancy Lynn
Javis, who has recently compiled and edited a cookbook featuring
recipes from cozy mysteries:
A little thing like murder shouldn’t
make us miss a meal.
We’ve
all heard of Nero Wolfe, the gourmand and gourmet detective for whom
food played a prominent role, and we all know who Miss Marple is. If
you can imagine those two crime solvers creating a genre, surely it
would be called the cozy mystery. In cozies, amateur sleuths solve
crimes while still working their day jobs and eating every chance
they get. Murder, mystery, and food go together well—so well that
many modern mysteries come with recipes printed within their pages.
That
affinity was the inspiration for Cozy
Food—128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes.
It seems that cozy writers are as obsessed with food as are their
readers, so it didn’t take much cajoling to get 128 authors to
submit recipes from their books, along with personal stories, for a
cozy cookbook.
