No Matter What Else I’ve Done . . . My Legacy as a Car Engine Chef Bill Scheller
I still get the phone call now and then, or maybe an email, from radio stations as far away as Australia. The question is always the same: “Are you the guy who cooks on his car engine?” Well, yes and no. I did, and I don’t, not anymore. But the queries are my own fault, because, along with another wise guy, I wrote the book. The book was Manifold Destiny: The
One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your
Car Engine! It appeared in three editions between 1989 and 2008 and was just what the title said it was. For reasons I’ll explain later, it will be the last thing anyone on Earth ever hears of me. It started in Montreal. My friend Chris Maynard and I had just returned from a long canoe trip in northern Ontario and had food – other than lakeside fried pickerel – on the brain. Pulling into the city, we headed straight for our favorite Montreal eatery,
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