There's a scene in Patricia Cornwell's new novel, "Autopsy," where protagonist Kay Scarpetta makes a garlic bread so mouthwateringly described you can almost smell the aroma of it rising off your Kindle. In real life, Cornwell admits she doesn't know the secret of Scarpetta's bread. "Staci, my partner, she makes garlic bread," the author told me on "Salon Talks" recently. "It is the best thing you've ever tasted, and she won't tell me. There's some secret ingredient in it, and she hides it."
