The night Shen Sui was stripped of her title as the God of Cooking, she used a pot of leftover dishes from an imperial banquet to blow the order of the Imperial Kitchen to pieces. No one knew that what she had blown apart was not food, but a thousand-year-old lie about the hierarchy of cuisine. When Pei Yan, the newly crowned God of Cooking, tasted his mother's recipe in her leftovers, when Inspector Chu Heng uncovered that bloodstained genealogy in a dark alley, when food critic Lu Zhao's pen began to tremble, a taste revolution fought at the stove and armed with leftovers had only just begun to boil.
