My Last Supper

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MY LAST SUPPER: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals


To quote Amazon.com, for her new foodie book, My Last Supper, Melanie Dunea came up with the ingenious idea of asking fifty of the world’s famous chefs what, if given the option, they would choose for their final meal in life.

Well, hardly -- ingenious, that is. For the purposes of interviewing chefs, that particular question has been an old journalistic standby for as long as we can remember. In fact, Vancouver’s West Ender poses it every week. So Ms. Dunea shouldn’t be given so much credit. However, one does have to give her marks for having the chutzpah to convince Bloomsbury Publishing that such an old chestnut could be parlayed into an expensive, high production value tome.

As you might predict, most of the “World’s famous chefs