When the enigmatic Forager Chefs Club accepts a contract to host a year-long terroir cooking competition, Dane Randall is tasked with recruiting the five people selected to participate in what could be a life-changing event. Each has motivations and histories that could help or hinder. There is Celeste, young and sheltered, raised on an island by her hippie mother and relegated to prep duties in a prestigious resort hotel; Christian, who left culinary school to care for his dying mother in a city struggling to survive; Blaise, an up-and-coming chef who sees himself as the benevolent caretaker of his twin brother with autism while others perceive it as exploitation; Eden, who brings pride and talent to the dinners she cooks at her father’s mission in Detroit; and Daniel, a private chef fighting his in-laws’ attempts to declare him an unfit father after his wife’s tragic death. The Forager Chefs Club is for those who relish complex characters and exploring forest/farm-to-fork cooking--either doing it or eating it. Like Kitchens of the Great Midwest, it includes tips and techniques for the increasingly popular foraging and sustainable cooking. Like Lessons in Chemistry, there are unexpected twists in the lives of the characters.