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Beyond Riverside Drive A Companion Cookbook
Author: Chris Royal

Within these pages you will find the ultimate culinary guidebook through the unsettling worlds of best selling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Make a reservation for dinner at The Bones, Tavern on the Green, Café des Artistes or The Four Seasons Pool Room. Grab a quick bite at The Wagon Wheel Restaurant, The Castle Club or everyone's... more » favorite greasy spoon - Maisie's Diner. The salt sea air makes you hungry? Well Oscar's, The King's Arms or the staff cafeteria on Level C should fix you right up. Craving a savory repast and a frothy pint after a long wet hike on the moors? Then The Half Moon Pub should fit the bill. But don't forget the leave room for a tasty snack straight off the spit along Rt.666. It's all here - From Dried Beef to Fish Lip Soup; from Hare Pate to Track Rabbit. 826 pages - More than 400 recipes and over 140 macabre illustrations guaranteed to whet your appetite. Just about every food item referenced in the first 14 Pendergast Novels plus that classic dish from the chilling short story Extraction. Remarkable, easy to follow recipes and wonderful links to many of the, shall we say, more exotic ingredients. This is it - From Medicine Creek to the Salton Sea. From Relic to Blue Labyrinth. From 891 Riverside Drive........and BEYOND.

Back in 2004, I was wandering around the local CVS, trying to decide on some "happies" for my girlfriend at the time, to go along with the Nyquil she sent me to procure. A couple magazines: check. Honey roasted peanuts: check. How about the customary Whitman's Sampler? Why of course. Oh, and a paperback, can't forget a good paperback. Hm-mm, this looks interesting. "Cabinet of Curiosities." Creepy cover art and 666 pages, even creepier, this should work. That was the beginning of my love affair with the writings of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. My one true guilty pleasure. "Cabinets" was, I think, my Goldilocks moment in literature. Sorry Stephen King, too long. Sorry Mr. Conrad, too deep. This Pendergast character is, well, just right.

So, I did what most folks do. I worked backwards. Starting with "Relic" and then on to "Reliquary", I discovered this new world where the unusual becomes explainable, a place where "monsters" are only unfortunate mutations, to be pitied somewhat. Fast forward a couple of years. Now there are all these recurring characters. People so well fleshed out that I became emotionally involved with them. These are personalities we all know, in our own lives. I had become hooked - truly invested in the stories.

And now, the "epiphany." My job takes me to some, shall we say, austere locations. The days can be extremely long and emotionally draining. The landscapes are rather drab and the meals even drabber. One evening I noticed something very strange. I was re-reading "Cabinet of Curiosities" and my stomach started growling. Broiled Lamb with Capers - Roast Beef - Roast Goose - Roast Mutton - Boiled Ham & Cabbage - Roasted Vegetables. I was actually salivating. I had read this book three times; I had read ALL these books at least three times and never noticed it: THE FOOD. From wonderful descriptions of meals served in fancy New York restaurants to good old home cooking in a small town Kansas diner. The food sounded marvelous. I dreamed of rare roast beef that night, I think.

So I started dog-earring my paperbacks while on my last deployment and kept a notebook by my bunk. Slowly, a list developed - a reference guide of sorts. Here is where one can find all manner of delectable goodies from the world of Agent A.X.L. Pendergast, from 891 Riverside Drive and beyond. Enjoy.

ISBN-13: 9781499237627
ISBN-10: 1499237626
Publication Date: 9/19/2014
Pages: 826
Edition: 1
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Type: Paperback
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