Off the Menu

Off the MenuBy: Stacey Ballis As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenesand thats just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patricks cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect birthday gifts for his ex mother in law, and dealing with the fallout from his romantic escapades, she barely has a personal life, much less time to spend with her combo platter of a

One sharply-dressed skeleton

inclusive narration of important historical events and a fast-paced

while sprinkling in lots of open-ended questions and prompts for further investigating

while pushing the ominous question of whether she wants to firmly to one side

He was eventually enrolled in the China Drama Academy

went on to have a second

Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards conquered the Incan empire in the sixteenth century

A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century

A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)

Cam Murphy

sym- pathies shift

There are millions of possible combinations and endless stories to be told