I assume, Nero Wolfe would agree. While visiting the Van Dine School, I stumbled across incriminating evidence. Authors judiciously include recipes in their mysteries. For the record, he can smother his Swiss Steak any way he pleases. Is it a crime.
Mystery authors dip into the souls of our very being.
By chance we escape from pulp to page. If not, they torture us even deeper. Day by day with plot and characters. Week by week we salivate for more and finally, our cravings are satisfied. Our bellies are not.