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The President Is Coming to Lunch

(1988)
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"Nan and Ivan Lyons have once again concocted a racy book that sizzles with gourmet delights."
-The New York Times 1988

"The authors of Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, Champagne Blues, and Sold! finally go over the top with a sustained performance that is their strongest book ever."
-Kirkus Reviews

Set in a posh New York City restaurant, a watering hole to see and be seen, where the goings on of the rich and not so rich are the daily fare, where not being seen there for lunch is a fate worse than death. The perfect backdrop for this hilarious novel from the authors of Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe.

Nan Lyons has been a food and travel writer for over twenty years, contributing to Bon Appetit, Travel + Leisure, More, Hamptons, L'official New York Newsday, as well as creating the Fielding's Agenda series and the Access Walking guides.

In collaboration with her husband Ivan, she wrote the first novel with a food background, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe which was then made into a major motion picture. They went on to write four other novels, as well as, scores of articles on food and travel.

She has just finished her newest book, Around the World in 80 Meals (Red Rock Press) was published in late 2010. Nan has most recently been made Associate Editor for "Let's Travel" a new website which features interviews as well as podcasts and articles on every aspect of travel. Her particular expertise is focused on restaurants, shopping and luxury hotels.

Genre: General Fiction

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