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Soul Kitchen: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307237651
ISBN: 0307237656
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Editorial Review:
If you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans!Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchen—he’s spent the last ten years in Angola Prison for murdering his boss, a wealthy New Orleans restaurateur, but has recently been exonerated on new evidence and released. Rickey remembers him as an ingenious chef and hires him on the spot. When a pill-pushing doctor and a Carnival scion talk Rickey into consulting at the restaurant they’re opening in one of the city’s “floating casinos,” Rickey recommends Milford for the head chef position and stays on to supervise. But soon Rickey finds himself medicating a kitchen injury with the doctor’s wares, and G-man grows tired of holding down the fort at Liquor alone. As the new restaurant moves toward its opening, Rickey learns that Milford’s past is inextricably linked with one of the project’s backers, a man whose intentions begin to seem more and more sinister.Full of the flavor of one of America’s greatest cities, Soul Kitchen is a sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A fast, enjoyable read
My least favorite of the series about two NOLA chefs, it is nonetheless well written with lively characters.
Rating:  - I wish my kitchen had this much soul...
I have to admit. I'm new to Poppy. Having filled my teenage mind back in high school with the likes of King, Rice, and Koontz, I was hesitant to start at the beginning of Brite's collection back in the day when she was writing horror. Like Poppy, I'm past that and prefer something these days with a little more substance. Having come across her Live Journal, I soon learned that her story of John Rickey and Gary "G-man" Stubbs was the direction to take. I started with Soul Kitchen, and right from ... Read More
Rating:  - "Soul Kitchen" delivers the goods
Reading "Soul Kitchen," the third book in Poppy Z. Brite's series about chefs John Rickey and Gary "G-Man" Stubbs, is a little like having old friends over for a potluck. You know that having them over is going to be a treat, but you're not sure what they're going to bring. This time, the dish is a hefty serving of New Orleans racial and social politics dished up with a garnish of conjugal discord.
The initial scene, an argument that segues into a murder, lays the groundwork for the novel's ... Read More
Rating:  - not good.
ok i realize im the lone detractor out of 30 reviews, but ill be the bad guy... this book was bad. i live in new orleans and im a foodie, so i thought id get a kick out of it, but the writing was just too poor.
in the first few pages i thought it was going to be a trashy mystery novel, and i was cool w/ that. but then the author dropped the mystery angle. okay....so its a not a mystery novel, but its still trashy. whats she going for?
dialog -- atrocious. do you realize that Rickey ... Read More
Rating: - Yum - YUM !!
Where do I start ?--- I first read "Exquisite Corpse" and thought:"Holy SHIA!- This one can write!-"But would I want to meet her on a dark night?" Read "The Value of X" and the next two Rickey and G-Man in one swell foop[!]and now I was hooked. She can write - and then some - and boy would I like to meet her now! The restaurant background has remained compulsively interesting through all three books and they are the best written and moving novels about a happy marriage that I have ever read - Claudia and David, ... Read More
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