The Green and the Red : A Novel

She's a vegetarian. He's a carnivore. Will it be a table for one? Meet La. She's the idealistic owner and chef of La Dame Verte, a vegetarian restaurant struggling in a small French town in Brittany. Meet Mathieu. He's the carnivorous marketing director of the town's biggest pork producer, which is trying to put La out of business to take over the restaurant's prime real estate. When La and Mathieu first cross paths, it is under false pretenses-Mathieu is posing as a vegetarian, infiltrating the local animal rights community for information that will force La's restaurant toward a swifter demise. And while La suspects that Mathieu isn't all that he appears to be, she has no idea how deep his culinary deception goes. Neither of them can deny the attraction they feel for each other, and it seems as though they might be setting a table for two ... until La learns the truth. Translated from the French, The Green and the Red is at once a romantic comedy and a comedy of errors-two people from different worlds coming together in a small French town immersed in the culture of food.