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MasterChef meets Artemis Fowl in the fantastic adventures of 13 year-old culinary genius Chef ZIN MIGNON. Zin has found a secret note: “Son. If you’ve found this, I’m probably baking bread behind the Pearly Gates. It’s important you know the truth...” Thus, the tale of Zin Mignon begins at the bottom of a jar of pickled pigs’ feet in his father’s pathetic Brooklyn deli. The world-spinning adventure takes him through the alleys of the homeless to the tables of billionaires. Early on, at the finest culinary school in Paris, Zin is in a horrific pickle. He's been kidnapped by the mysterious Mustard Monks and spirited away to their ultra-remote mountaintop abbey for a bewildering apprenticeship. In time, he’ll be able to take their daunting Test. If he passes, he may join their secret Order and achieve the culinary success he’s always dreamed of. If he fails…. In the wildly appetizing first book of the Zin Mignon series, with the help of his family and friends, Zin is off to honor the solemn promise he made to his dad and to learn the incredible secret of his family legacy. How dark can it get? With humor, amazing exploits and heartfelt compassion, Zin uses food and his kitchen to build a recipe that will lead to his true identity. Can he cut the mustard, or is it all just pie in the sky? Author MICHAEL DASWICK is the winner of both of Columbia's prestigious literary awards for fiction. He's the author of the heartwarming epic novel CHIP ROCK and the FAT OLD FART, and HALLBOYS, a collection of inspiring connected short stories. Always mixing humor and drama, friends and treacherous rivals, with ZIN MIGNON, Michael has cooked up a stirring series of Kitchen Fiction.