Sergeant York introduced each of the dishes to Kate and even told her how they had been prepared.

“You know so much about food.” She said,

“Yes. My family is in this business.”

“They have a restaurant?”

“Right.” York grinned. To be exact, they had chains of more than ten restaurants in California. But he rarely told others about it because he had been overweight when he was a teenager.

“Really? I could not imagine what you looked like when you were fat.”

“When I decided to be a policeman, I started a diet. I went out running for 15 miles a day. My mom cried after seeing me lose...