Commentary: 

OK, I cheated a bit and listened to the episode after gave it high marks in his review. While driving across northern California with my wife last weekend, I threw it in the car stereo and got completely immersed. The storyline traces a French chef\'s unique and well received dishes and ties it all in to a New Orleans cobbler\'s exemplary shoe products. Believe it or not, there\'s plenty of horror in that story.

In fact, my wife kept grabbing my arm every time a new twist was revealed - she couldn\'t believe that this was allowed on radio \"back then.\" Two things - first, it\'s a bloody good thing that my car has automatic transmission, as my right arm was cramped from so much grabbing; and, after 19 years of marriage, why does my wife try to convince me that she\'s too young to remember this show? If I\'ve learned one thing in those 19 years though, it\'s that it\'s best that I not protest her \"youthful\" ignorance.

Anyway, the narrative style interspersing the storyline was a superb mix...just enough time to digest what just happened and where we were being taken. After listening to quite a few episodes, this ranks near the top of my list....and for the first time I can state that I finally heard an Elspeth Eric episode that didn\'t make me remember my root canal. <br>