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Meet the Author
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Mary Moran | The Vita Gang Mysteries
@Beaverdale Books
The Vita Gang Mysteries, Who Stole Vita D?
Deep in the heart of Farmville, where the air is clean and the fields are green, Super Chef Mary made The Vita Gang delicious dinners in her Mystic Kitchen. Out of the window, Franco Fry plotted his evil plan to stop the Vita Gang. After the Gang finished their delicious dinner, they headed back to their own homes. As Vita D stepped onto his porch, he stepped in grease and reached for a chocolate-covered rail, only to be snatched by a candy rope! Franco Fry and his sidekick Carl Candy kidnapped Vita D to stop fresh vegetables from growing in Farmville. Franco Fry wants his restaurant Fry Time, a fried food restaurant, to thrive. Super Chef Mary and the remaining Vita Gang go on the hunt for Vita D and uncover Franco Fry and Carl Candy’s evil plan. Will Super Chef Mary and The Vita Gang make it to the top of Brussels Sprouts Mountain to rescue their friend in time?
A Los Angeles chef with strong roots from Oklahoma City, Mary Payne Moran is an expert with 20 years of experience in the culinary field. For over 18 years, Mary has taught children about food, health, and cooking. She has used the Vita Gang as an easy way to connect with kids and teach them about healthy food choices in and out of her cooking school The Silver Lake Kitchen. Since 2012, Mary has worked with Traditional Home Magazine to create timeless, beautiful, and delicious menus with accompanying recipes. For Mary, cooking is more than putting food on a table, it’s a powerful way to connect and create a relationship with both food and the person/people you’re feeding. Mary has also worked for Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Sugar Rush, and Nailed It! Mary graduated from the Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California in 2003, she would bring her desserts from culinary school to the set of Gilmore Girls. She began food styling for the show and landed her first catering job, Melissa McCarthy’s wedding dinner.