The French snail Escargot attends a party, hoping to find his snailentine, but he instead finds a surprising new friend.

"A second helping of tales on the joys and challenges of working, eating, and loving in France..." --

In Houston, everyone from enterprising chefs at established restaurants to home cooks who love to eat has taken their recipes to the streets. From the Heights to Montrose and bars in between, food truck concepts are peppered around the Bayou City, feeding hungry Houstonians everything from bacon jam to cookie-flavored cashew butter, beer-braised lengua tacos to fried escargot. These creative mini-restaurants on wheels have shared the best of the best,...

Grant Damont is a self-made man who was well on his way to becoming a millionaire by the time he was twenty, and Paris Clayton is a cash-poor phone actor for gay men. When they meet at a club called Rouge, the two are immediately attracted to each other. But Paris can't handle the fact that Grant's money allows him to feast on escargot and filet mignon when Paris's empty pockets will only allow him to scratch out a meager meal of hamburgers and French...

A lot can happen in 200 kitchens. A giant razor-clawed lizard attack. An ecstasy overdose on a busy service. A stripper in the cold-room. A twenty-eight-hour day and a hundred-and eight-hour week. Dish-pigs on acid and billionaire special forces bodyguards. Burnt genitalia and the spine-nipple. Not to mention a whole lot of love, hate, madness and magic. From tropical beaches to corporate skyscrapers and into the homes of the super-rich. At the...