La pasticherie de Petra

Like Water for Chocolate, tl;dr version: a cook represses her feelings and in doing so, she infuses food with the emotion she feels while cooking it such that affects everyone who eats it.

- My first impulse was "Eric Bittle!" but I haven't read Check, Please canon since the kiss.

- Eliot Spencer's bottled-up emotions affect the brewpub clientele of with very distinctive effects, because Leverage could use a little bit more weirdness.

- Other places I do not go include Hannibal, but, you know, if anyone wrote Como agua para chocolate Hannibal, I would make an exception and read it.

- Great British Bake-Off alt season? Yes? Yes.

- Despite my brain yelling at me that this is a Latin American canon in a Latin American genre, that I need some Latin American characters up in here, and that there is no shortage of Latinx in your average kitchen, I can't come up with many characters who cook. Alba Villanueva definitely doesn't have this superpower, or she'd have figured out how to use it to make Xo less so. Unless part of the reason that Xo is so very Xo is because Alba *does* have this power. I'd read that too. Jane Gloriana Villanueva clearly sublimates whatever Alba cooks into writing. Also, the combination of Emotion Food and Rogelio would be quite explosive.

- Rosa Diaz doesn't cook. Except for when she does, at which point the entire Nine-Nine is $EMOTION.

N. B. No, I am not procrastinating on tearing apart the very rushed draft of a book and rewriting it. Why do you ask? I always post lists of plotbunnies. Check my journal entries from, uh, back when I used to post them one-tenth this regularly. I will shut up soon when I sublimate my emotions into an actual story.

There must be someone out there who wants to read a story about a straitlaced but smart FBI agent being forced to work with a clever, wise-cracking felon.

No, not those ones; I think Agent Jones needs an Alec Hardison in his life.

All I need now is the con.

ETA: My story is here.

Betty wrote another version in a comment here.