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Deep Dish

A Novel

by Mary Kay Andrews
Julia Gibson
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""Tasty. . . . [Andrews is] the queen of sass, and revenge is her favorite ingredient." — Daytona Beach News-Journal

Battling TV chefs find themselves competing for a coveted weekly time slot on national television in Mary Kay Andrews's delightful and hilarious New York Times bestseller Deep Dish.

After years of hard work, Gina Foxton, chef extraordinaire and former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion, is hosting her own show, Fresh Start, on local Georgia public television. She's also dating the producer. But when Fresh goes bad, and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss's wife, Gina decides it's time to pursue bigger dreams. Namely, a gig on national television.

Gina knows she's destined to be the Cooking Channel's next superstar. But the execs also have their eyes on Tate Moody, Mr. ""Kill It and Grill It"" himself, host of the hunting-and-fishing cooking show Vittles. The ultimate man's man, Tate's a tasty side of beef with a large, swooning female fan base. Gina's loyal devotees consist of her free-spirit college dropout sister and her mother—who calls every single day.

But when the smoke clears there can only be one TV chef standing as Gina and Tate get ready for the cook-off of their lives.

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  • Release date

    June 7, 2016

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780062640789
      • File size: 387591 KB
      • Duration: 13:27:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 3, 2007
      Andrews (Savannah Breeze
      ; Hissy Fit
      ) delivers a trademark romance set in her native Deep South. Gina Foxton is a 30-year-old chef with a health-conscious approach to classic Southern fare whose public access cooking show gets canceled when the show's big sponsor pulls out after finding the show's producer (and Gina's boyfriend) in bed with his wife. So news that the Cooking Channel is looking to add a new show is a welcome development. The producers are also interested in another local cooking show called Vittles
      , hosted by “Kill It and Grill It” Tate Moody. The competition between Gina and Tate ramps up when the network decides to turn their competition into a reality show. The close quarters and competition create the right atmosphere for the two chefs to fall in love, though things never get too racy. Andrews takes a long time to get the romance off the ground, but when it starts moving, it moves fast. Andrews's readership will eat this one up.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Who's in the kitchen with Atlanta TV chef Gina Foxton? It's rival cook Tate Moody, as each of the pair tries to serve up the winning recipe for a single national-cooking-network spot. Julia Gibson gives Gina a toned-down Georgia accent, while chef Tate sounds like the sportsman and back-yard chef he is. Gibson doesn't miss a beat in characterizing types as diverse as New York television executives and remote islanders. Her most delightful depiction is of Mrs. Birdell Foxton, Gina's mother, whose unintentionally humorous telephone messages follow Gina through humiliating cooking catastrophes and the loss of her advertiser and boyfriend. Through it all, Gina and Tate find that both studio and home kitchens have plenty of room for two cooks. J.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Isabel Keating gives her all--and more--to liven up this second-rate Southern novel by a usually first-rate writer. Curiously, it is with the two main characters--competing Atlanta TV chefs Gina Foxton and Tate Moody--that she is least successful. The dialogue and rapport between the rivals, who later become lovers, sounds flat as the proverbial pancake, and they never really connect. But the production's biggest problem is the story's predictable plot--Andrews telegraphs all the moves far in advance. Nonetheless, Keating is hilarious and endearing in her portrayals of the supporting cast of Southern characters--from crackling old ladies to good old boys and mumbling country bumpkins. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      Starred review from February 1, 2008
      Atlanta TV cooking star Gina Foxton notices budgetary cuts around the meager set of her local PBS show in the form of substituted ingredients, but the final straw is the replacement of mackerel for salmon in her fish dish. Worse, the budget cuts are caused by her boyfriend's affair with the wife of the sponsor, who withdraws from the show. Things look brighter when Gina gets considered for a spot on the national cooking channel. Unfortunately, Tate "Kill It and Grill It" Moody, the popular star of the cooking show "Vittles", is also in the running. Humor abounds as the two rivals lock horns in their quest for the brass ring. Colorful secondary characters add to the hilarity. Readers with a taste for delectable culinary romances like Millie Criswell's "The Trouble with Mary", Susan Mallery's "Delicious", and Deirdre Martin's "Just a Taste" will enjoy Andrews's ("Hissy Fit") latest big helping of fun. For popular fiction collections of all sizes. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 11/15/07.]Shelley Mosley, Glendale Community Coll. Lib. Media Ctr., AZ

      Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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