Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Well the title was enough to get us interested. Sounds fun and is set in St Louis Missouri which was a nice surprise.
Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves
What you need to know before your trail
Tucker loves to cook and his dream is to become a chef in a restaurant cooking ‘chinese food. He heads off to St Louis but on the way meets up with the intriguing Corinne Chang and agreeing to give her a lift to Buffalo in New York, they strike up one heck of a relationship and start to have the adventure of a lifetime.
Tucker and Corinne are two of a kind – he loves martial arts, speaks Mandarin and loves Chinese cooking and she is a gemologist from Montreal. will they have the skills and the ability to thwart the bad guys after diamonds, the FBI and a whole lot more?
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If you’ve ever wondered how diamond and Chinese cooking could be in the same story then look no further for this is quite a mix and is all brought together via a road trip like no other.
From Lancaster to St. Louis, MO
Having been kicked out of college in Beddingfield College in Lancaster, NH, Tucker is his way to St. Louis, MO, when he picks up hitchhiker Corinne and offers her a ride to buffalo. Via this parents house in Lancaster MA, their road trip becomes one adventure after another – all told via chapters headed with one of Tucker’s rules and words of wisdom which he uses to guide his actions along the way –
Rule #8: Hitting people is often bad, but if it’s necessary, it’s necessary to hit first–always.
Rule #19: Never pick up strangers at a highway rest stop unless they speak Mandarin.
Rule #94: When the rules don’t cover it, improvise.
The rules as well as the adventure are as wacky as they come and the sense of adventure as the couple ride through one town after another and get through scraps and other more serious situations is like being there yourself. The camaraderie and chatter in the car is familiar and real. The suspicions and the involvement with the FBI intriguing and the sense that Tucker is a guy who survives on luck as well as his martial arts skills.
There are many worlds within this book – the sense of adventure, the tasty and aromatic world of Chinese cooking which Tucker is extremely passionate about and the world of martial arts. One minute cookery scenes to make you drool followed by action scenes makes for a very unique and brilliant read.
If you are fascinated by the workings of a Chinese kitchen, how the dishes are invented and prepared, how the chef hones his skills and how the food is much more than something you eat then pick up the chopsticks on the cover and tuck in.
Booktrailer Review
Clare:
Drool! I so need to eat Chinese food now. What a fun, often silly but never boring road trip and immersion into the world of Chinese cuisine. Ahh the rice, noodles and all that preparation. Who knew it was such an art form? and as for Tucker who is passionate about martial arts as well as theMandarin chinese language, then he is quite a character I never expected to meet. Corinne brings him friendship, adventure and trouble but all in all this makes for a fun read. A unique title, a quirky cover and an adventurous read in every sense of the word!
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