Review: A cute light tale w. delightful characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
Lunch Lady protagonist Angela, a budding gourmet chef, is fired from a top-of-the-line restaurant for allegedly injuring a guest, and only manages to find work in a school cafeteria, where she is low man on the totem pole. Here too, the fates are against her and three students, 12th graders, decide to set things right ... but can they?Meanwhile, a prestigious cooking competition is coming to town and local residents are being allowed to enter. Angela and one of the students she befriends, Isaac, both do so, determined to show the uppity vice-principal what they can do. The vice-principal is not pleased.Angela is sweet and so is Isaac. The others have both good and bad sides. All have flavor. The troubles leave the reader smiling in sympathy and though at times the cooking details slow the tale, one evening should be enough to sail through it.