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Recipe for Disaster

Seven courses. One critic. Every dish is a message she doesn't want to hear. Sloane Mitchell has made three chefs cry on social media and ended two restaurant careers, and she has never once lost sleep over it. So when her editor sends her to a converted greenhouse called Bramble & Bone for a press preview the week before Valentine's Day, she knows the story already. Reclaimed wood, farm names on the menu, twelve months to closing. Then she sees the chef through the open kitchen.