Raymond Babchuk lives for food and what he can create with it. It is an obsession that began as a young boy in Hungary, absorbing every culinary movement of his aunt's hands as she chopped, peeled and baked, and followed him as a young immigrant to New York, where he rapidly becomes a rising star of the Manhattan restaurant scene.

When Raymond wins the international Chef de France competition, he looks set to put the long days of working as an unappreciated chef de partie, forced to live with a vile, over-sexed American aunt, behind him. However, ambitious and daring he may be—a genius, even—but Raymond's plans for a glittering future are changed forever when he is confronted with the most unusual of ingredients—a human body.

Cooking up the evidence of a drunken manslaughter, the potential of this most subtle and exotic of meats is immediately apparent not only to Raymond, but to entrepreneurial mortician, Arnold Riseveldt. Initially horrified, Arnold has two vital ingredients of his own to contribute to the running of what will be Manhattan's most successful and exclusive restaurant—an unending supply of meat and good old-fashioned blackmail.

But how long can they go on serving people to people...especially when the menu is finally revealed to the diners of New York City?
Public outcry?
You bet! It's almost impossible to get a table there.

Barney Broom is a screenwriter and director with many years' experience in the film industry. His varied work includes pop promos, commercials, corporate and educational films, documentaries for the Discovery and History channels, including Braving the Cape, the Borobudur Ship Expedition's voyage across the Indian Ocean. His cinema short Knights Electric is catalogued by the BFI as an iconic musical memoir of 80s Britain. He is a member of BAFTA and the Directors Guild of Great Britain. Barney lives in London and North Norfolk.