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In the best selling writer of Kitchen Confidential comes this correct, fascinating story of quest through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century.By the late-nineteenth century, it appeared that New York City had put a finish to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had so often ruined the city's population. That's until 1904, once the disease broke out in a home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Experts thought the household prepare, Mary Mallon, to be a provider. But before she might be examined, the girl, soon-to be referred to as Typhoid Mary, had vanished.