Lois Clary is living the Bay Area start-up "dream". She is heavily invested in her job and enjoys it but it leaves her with no time for anything outside of work, even eating. She has been starting to live on Slurry, a nutritionally dense but flavorless goo, when she sees a flyer for Clement Street Soup and Sourdough with the most unusual menu. You could pick spicy soup, spicy sandwich, or combo (double spicy). She called and placed an order for the double spicy and it changed her life. The food was amazing and the bread was nothing short of heavenly. Soon she was ordering constantly but when the brothers who ran the place had to move, they presented her with the sourdough starter and a copy of the music that needed to be played for the start to work its magic.
Now Lois instead of doing nothing but programming a robotic arm at work is learning how to bake and everyone is commenting on how amazing her bread is. It's so good, she tries to get a place at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market but instead of getting in there, she is instead invited to join a different, more secret market. Now she is mixing her programming skills for the robotic arm, the music, and the sourdough and creating something truly special...or is she?
I enjoyed this book soooo much! The story was fun and light but with darker undertones and the characters were well written and engaging. I didn't realize this was the same author who had written Mr. Penumbra's 24-hr Book Store which I also loved but I think I will now be following him to grab anything new he writes as I've loved everything I've read so far.
Page count: 272p/11,525p ytd/322,220p lifetime
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