LET'S EAT by David P. Wagner
Thanksgiving is next week, so why don't I write about food? It will get us ready for the stuffing, and you can interpret that word any way you wish, since on Turkey Day we are first the stuffers and then the stuffees. But my entry here will not be about the traditional dishes of that day, as much as we love them. My culinary theme here will be more international, and specifically Italian. I write mysteries that take place in Italy, a country where I spent nine wonderful years. And you can't set your characters down in Italy without writing about food. It just can't be done. In crime fiction both sleuths and suspects have to occasionally stop for a meal or a snack. They're people, after all, and that's what people do. (Have you noticed in British mysteries they're always stopping to drink tea, but nobody ever has to use the loo? Do the Brits have large bladders? But I digress.) So there is always the occas...