Once upon a time, Regina Benuzzi was Queenie B, a celebrity chef with Michelin-starred restaurants, TV shows, cookbooks, and a husband and son. But she lost it all when her drug and alcohol addiction took over her life. Years later, Gale, a line cook with aspirations to someday run his own restaurant, volunteers to help cook at a soup kitchen, one that has suspiciously high-end appliances and kitchen tools. Gale doesn't recognize Regina as the woman running the kitchen, but that's the way Regina wants it, and it all works out just fine — until Gale is chosen to be on a cooking competition show and he discovers who his new mentor really is.
This was a lovely book about the friendship and respect that grows between two chefs at different stages of their careers and their addiction recovery journeys, and refreshingly, there's not even a hint at a romance between the two (that happens SO MUCH in this sort of book that I was half-expecting it the whole way through). The food they create sounds delicious, the main and side characters are well-created, and honestly, the only thing that bugs me about this book is the title (I get that it's a common phrase, but it's weird to see it written out.) Well worth a read.
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