Love à la Mode by Stephanie Kate Strohm

Author:Stephanie Kate Strohm [Strohm, Stephanie Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2018-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

From the outside, Henry was pretty sure that it looked like he had everything under control. And he did have everything under control—mostly. He’d been in Ms. Whitman’s room Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, packet complete. In fact, he’d done his homework for all of his classes far more thoroughly than he’d ever done his homework back home. Henry was raising his hand in science, volunteering to read in English, speaking in French, and making timelines in history. He was, in short, busting his ass to make sure that Mom had absolutely nothing to complain about. No way was Ms. Whitman the only teacher she’d e-mailed. They were probably all reporting back to her. And he was going to give them only good stuff to report on.

There was, however, one small problem: Henry was exhausted. And it wasn’t just his academic classes he was struggling to stay awake in. Even now, standing in the kitchen in front of Chef Martinet, Henry couldn’t stop yawning.

And, of course, there was one big problem: Rosie. He knew he’d been kind of a grumpy jerk—thanks, Mom—and then when he’d tried to apologize with the carrot roses, that had failed spectacularly. He couldn’t believe he’d made her cry. Although what had he been thinking, showing off his fancy, useless knife cuts when he knew Rosie was struggling in class? Oh, that’s right—he hadn’t been thinking.

“Happy Friday,” Chef Martinet said, pulling Henry out of his carrot-roses funk. The words sounded so incongruous coming out of her pinched lips that Henry wondered if maybe she’d translated some other phrase into English incorrectly. “Now that we have set up a solid foundation for cooking, we will begin to flex our creative muscles.” Wait, what was going on? Henry tried to wake himself up a little more. “Today, we will begin our Dish of the Day. Every Friday you will have a chance to create your own dish—anything you like—using the ingredients we have focused on that week. This is your chance to impress me. Every week, there will be one winning Dish of the Day.”

All around Henry, his classmates buzzed excitedly. Hampus thumped him on the back, but even that wasn’t enough to clear the fuzz out of his brain.

“What do we get if we win?” Yumi asked, her hand up in the air.

“What do you get?” Chef Martinet repeated icily. “You get the satisfaction of a dish well done, Osaki-Weissman.” Even the normally indomitable Yumi looked chastened by Chef Martinet. “It is worth mentioning, perhaps, that no student who has won Dish of the Day has ever been asked to leave the École. Madame Besson, if you would.”

As Madame Besson rolled the whiteboard to the front of the room, everyone was talking. She flipped it over to reveal DISH OF THE DAY written on the top of the whiteboard, with a numbered list of slots for, Henry assumed, the top Dishes of the Day for the rest of the semester. Adrenaline should have been kicking in right about now.

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