From that point on, she started keeping track of her food experiences (including the bad ones) in a journal.
Her eyes were opened to good food when her Aunt Lydia, visiting from France, took her into the city to show her what a real restaurant is. Her parents prefer take out, rarely using their kitchen, so Gladys never knew what good food truly tasted like. Readers will fall in love with precocious Gladys. ‘…tender duck breast swimming in a lake of tea-infused gravy, with a side of slender asparagus stalks dipping their tips in at the shore.’ Keeping it a secret from her family while still completing her assignment is starting to seem to Gladys like an impossibility. When she enters a writing contest in school, her entry ends up in the hands of the Dining Editor at a prestigious New York newspaper and she’s offered a job as a food critic. During her latest kitchen experiment involving crème brûlée and a blowtorch, her family’s kitchen curtains went up in smoke and her family finally put a stop to her kitchen shenanigans. From entrées to pastries, she loves cooking anything and everything.
Gladys Gatsby is a sixth grader that loves nothing more than experimenting in the kitchen. The sweet, melty butterscotch offset the bitterness of the chocolate, and the hint of nutmeg gave the whole thing a kick.’ ‘Gladys took a bite of her brownie, and a slew of flavors flooded her taste buds. Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads After surviving the world's longest honeymoon (two years, seventy-four countries!), she now lives in Colorado with her husband and their trusty waffle iron. in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College. She grew up in New York and received a B.A. She is also a playwright and recovering world traveler. Tara Dairman is the author of ALL FOUR STARS, which was named an Amazon Best Book of the Month and a Mighty Girl Top Book of 2014 for Teens and Tweens. She’s devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she’s mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world.īut in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy and sneak into New York City-all while keeping her identity a secret! Easy as pie, right? Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she’s eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). (Just don’t tell anyone that she’s in sixth grade.) Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest restaurant critic. Published by Putnam Juvenile on July 10th 2014Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book free from Book Tour in exchange for an honest review.
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