Interview with Karen Pierce, Author of a New Cookbook Celebrating the Work of Agatha Christie
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
I loved geeking out with Karen over the top ten "food-related" books within the Christie canon, and I think you will too!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery |
| 0:10.8 | novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. |
| 0:14.4 | I am Kemper Donovan and I have an interview for you in this episode. |
| 0:20.8 | There are many books about various aspects of Agatha Christie that get published every |
| 0:25.8 | year. |
| 0:27.1 | But this book that I'm about to discuss with its author is one of the best I've read |
| 0:30.9 | in quite some time. |
| 0:31.9 | Let's just get right to the interview where all will be explained. |
| 0:37.4 | My guest today, Karen Pierce, is a Christie superfan and the writer of a new book called |
| 0:44.2 | Recipes for Murder, 66 dishes that celebrate the mysteries of Agatha Christie, which came |
| 0:50.8 | out on the 22nd of August of this year. |
| 0:53.5 | So it is hot off the presses. |
| 0:56.6 | On this podcast, we'll be thrilled to hear that Dr. John Kern has written the forward |
| 1:01.7 | to this book. |
| 1:02.9 | I have, of course, read it myself and I thoroughly enjoyed it. |
| 1:06.6 | And from the outset, I want to be clear about something. |
| 1:09.2 | This is a book that features a recipe for each and every one of Christie's 66 length |
| 1:13.9 | mystery novels, but Karen's book is much more than a compilation of recipes. |
| 1:19.3 | There is a lot of interstitial writing in this book and it's obvious that a great deal |
| 1:23.2 | of time and effort and research went into the connections that she makes between each |
| 1:28.6 | recipe and its corresponding Christie title. |
| 1:31.7 | There are lots of really fun surprises in here for me as a Christie file. |
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