If you have read Ruth Reichl’s writing and followed her career, this storyline will likely sound familiar.
It is the tale of Billie Breslin, a young woman who has just taken an exciting job at Delicious!, the foremost food magazine in the country, housed in the elegant Timbers Mansion in Greenwich Village. When the magazine is unceremoniously shut down, she is left alone in the mansion to do a perfunctory interim job. Billie soon finds a hidden room that houses treasures from the past, most notably the World War II-era letters of Lulu Swan, a precocious 12-year-old, written to the legendary chef and writer James Beard. This discovery raises questions about the past, present and future that draw her into a journey of further discovery.
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