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street hungry

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The man with the vegetable truck is such a fixture, all his customers feel he's most probably been there since Charles Carroll of Carrollton stopped to a buy a handful of plums on his way to sign the Declaration. Everyone knows the vendor as "Weight" (and a few know it's also Wisnitz), not for any extra pounds he carries but because his calculations, thumb on the scale and all, ignore both the metric system and the more ordinary pounds and ounces in favor of his own private calculations. It's is Weight's habit to carry on all negotiations while chewing on a piece of his more dubious fruit. So when he drops to the street, lifeless, it is assumed that he has suddenly choked on the half-rotten plum he'd had in his mouth." "It's the second such collapse and death, under very different circumstances, that sets Shep Ladderback thinking. Later that day a similar death takes place in a very different ambiance - the newest and hottest (and oddest) restaurant in Philadelphia, Loup Garou. The victim is a nationally known food critic who had once been the partner and lover of the restaurant's owner, and who had lately panned her ex's bizarre enterprise unmercifully. It was a bonanza for fledgling reporter Andrea (Andy) Cosicki, being treated to a birthday lunch at Loup Garou, to catch real news; the woman dropped to the floor not three feet from where Andy was sitting." This is the latest episode in Bill Kent's series featuring the unlikely duo: young, eager six-foot-tall Andrea Cosicki and her brilliant, shabby, and inward-looking mentor at The Philadelphia Press, Shep Ladderback. With the City of Brotherly Love - and crooked politics - as its backdrop, Sweet Hungry gives us Kent's take on the historical city.