Kip Meyerhoff – författare

Kip Meyerhoff learned how to cook from his father, a New York City gangster who got his formal training in culinary arts while doing a stretch in prison.His dad taught him the axioms of cooking: a little sugar can go a long way; bitterness can spoil your appetite for life; tarts are not always a just dessert; heat can reduce heat; and hot is not always hot. Kip wanted to learn more, so his father turned him over to a succession of hotel chefs. Soon he was searing and broiling, baking and boiling, sauting and flambing, roasting and toasting.He looks back at his incredible adventures cooking in Brooklyn, Hollywood, the Florida Keys, and just about everywhere else in this memoir about the flavors of life. Along the way, he shares tasty recipes such as the Kings Sandwich (a grilled peanut-butter-and-banana goodie that was Elvis Presleys favorite), the Dixie Whistlers Fried Chicken, Garlicky White Pizza Sauce, Perfect Boiled Eggs, and many other dishes.Join Kip as he travels the world without a mapcooking pasta for wise guys, making a Christmas breakfast for working girls in Seoul, and winding up as a restaurateur in southern Indiana.

When PI Rollo Michaels does a few "e;favors"e; for a gangster friend of his late father, he becomes entangled in the strings of Mafia puppeteer "e;Big Vinnie"e; Costello. While on a New York family vacation with his daughter, son, and fiancee, Rollo comes under the scrutiny of the FBI. His subsequent beatdown and arrest for assaulting an FBI agent is witnessed by his children, drawing the unrelenting wrath of his ex-wife, and yet another wedding postponement by his fiancee. Hoping to stave off further federal entanglements, the partners of Michaels & Associates urge Rollo to cut his ties to Don Vincenzo Costello before chaos reigns from coast-to-coast. But more requests for favors draw Rollo deeper in. A mafia hit team races a multijurisdictional taskforce to locate a serial killer headed to LA, while the Russian Mafia attempts to assassinate Big Vinnie. Will the resulting maelstrom suck Rollo down?

The first short story starts at the close of 1940 and ends in December 1941. The story depicts infamous organized crime members and how they operated. The protagonist happens to be the grandfather of the lead character of the title story, A Six-Pack to Go, PI Rollo Michaels. In fact, Rollo appears in the other stories as well. The book ends with a preview of Rollo Michaels: The Last Case because when it's personal, you do what you have to do!