Gladys Gatsby has been cooking since she was seven, unbeknownst to her
parents. After a crème brûlée accident, where the kitchen curtains catch on
fire, Gladys’s parents finally learns her secret. Gladys loses her kitchen
privileges and her allowance for 6 months to help pay for the damage – her
parents just want Gladys to be a kid and to do kid things.
When Gladys is assigned to write a paper about her future job, she first
writes about how she wants to be a vet. However, her teacher notices that her
paper lacks passion, so she persuades Gladys to rewrite her paper. Gladys needs
up winning her classroom’s essay contest and her essay over how she wants to be
a food critic gets submitted to the New York Standard newspaper to compete
against other essays.
Gladys’s essay gets accidentally passed to the food editor; Gladys gets
a job as a freelance writer as a food critic. The only problem is that Gladys
must get to New York City without her parents finding out.
This is a nominee for the Mark Twain Award.
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