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Stanley Park / Timothy Taylor.

by Taylor, Timothy L., 1963-

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2001.

Cooks -- Fiction.

Restaurants -- Fiction.

Homeless persons -- Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.

Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.

British Columbia -- Fiction.

Canada reads ; 2007.

0676973094 (2001 Vintage Canada trade pbk.)

9781582432-76 (hc : 1st U.S. ed. 2002)

1582432074 (hc : 1st U.S. ed. 2002)

423 p. ; 23 cm.

A love story wrapped in a murder mystery, served up as a laugh-out-loud satire of the trendy urban restaurant scene. Jeremy Papier, the new Alice Waters of the Vancouver food world, is fast becoming known for his radically rear-guard cuisine--tradition-steeped dishes that celebrate the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. His restaurant, The Monkey's Paw Bistro, is always fully booked, but, unfortunately, it's more an artistic triumph than a reasonably run business. Far too costly ever to turn a profit, it is kited by Jeremy on dozens of maxed-out credit cards. An old family friend, Dante Beale, owner of a worldwide chain of cookie-cutter coffeehouses, is willing to bail the restaurant out-- for the price of sole control. It's a business proposition made in hell, one strenuously opposed by Jeremy's pretty young sous chef, the incorruptible, plainspoken Jules. Jeremy's problems deepen when his eccentric-academic father--a "participatory anthropologist" half Joseph Mitchell, half Joe Gould--loses himself among the homeless in Vancouver's Stanley Park. He lives as they do (he's especially adept at catching and roasting sparrows) and soon involves Jeremy in researching a "cold case" crime, the true-life murder of two children slain in the park in the early 1970's.

Canadian fiction.

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