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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the movie version of Dan Brown's mega-seller The Da Vinci Code arrives in theatres today.

What you don't know, however, is that the success of Dan Brown's novel has inspired me to write a pastry-related religion/art history/murder thriller, The Da Vinci Scone. An excerpt is below and a real scone (like our Pumpkin-Cranberry, Dried Fruit or White Chocolate Buttermilk recipes) might help set the mood:


What did it mean, this baked good in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre?

The security doors were slammed shut. There had been no way out for whoever had left the scone in front of the Caravaggio painting.

"Is this some sort of biscuit?" Sofie asked.

"It's what we call a scone," Langdorn replied.  "A scone is bread product made with baking powder as a leavening agent. It's a component of the ancient English ceremony of high tea. "

Langdorn stared at the currants flecking the scone. They formed a strange shape. A star? A pentagram? An asterisk?

What message was contained within the elaborate pattern of the currants?

What sinister truth did this scone hold?

Tom Hanks just might be seen at a Starbucks near you - wearing that green employee apron, not on the customer side of the counter. Universal just picked up the rights to an as-yet-unpublished book by Michael Gates Gill about a man who, fired from his executive job, is forced to start over in the service industry, working at a coffee shop. The movie, titled How Starbucks Saved My Life, is slated to begin production later this year. Though the memoir is based on events that happened in the late 1960's, it seems likely that the movie will be set in the present.

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