In her second investigation after The Dark Lady, Naomi Reed is pulled from literary archives into the cutthroat world of global food empires.
 
A billion-dollar fried-chicken giant has filed a crushing lawsuit against Miss Millie’s Table, a family restaurant in Louisville, claiming theft of its closely guarded “original recipe.” But the family insists the recipe has been theirs for generations—handed down from an ancestor who cooked in the Sanders household long before the Colonel ever donned a white suit.
 
Naomi follows a paper trail from Kentucky kitchens to corporate boardrooms and sealed vaults in Fort Knox, unearthing century-old ledgers, spice manifests, and journals that point to a deeper theft of Black culinary genius.
 
As the case hurtles toward a high-stakes federal trial, her investigation ignites food historians, trademark lawyers, and media empires on both sides of the Atlantic.
 
Powerful interests move to bury the evidence. Key witnesses recant. Break-ins and shadow surveillance remind Naomi that food, like art, is never just sustenance—it’s capital, culture, and control.
 
Racing deadlines and danger, Naomi must once again fight to prove what the world prefers to forget: that behind some of America’s most profitable “traditions” stand Black women whose brilliance was taken and sold. Taste & Entitlement is a globe-spanning legal thriller and historical mystery that carries the audacious spirit of The Dark Lady into a new arena—where every bite of fried chicken is seasoned with history, and every courtroom argument is a battle for memory itself.