Manifold Destiny (cookbook)

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Manifold Destiny is a 1989 cookbook ({{ISBN|0679723374}}), its updated 1998 edition ({{ISBN|0375751408}}) and a 2008 update ({{ISBN|1416596232}}) on the subject of cooking on the surface of a car engine. It was written by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, a photographer and a travel writer who were also rally drivers.{{cite news |last=Schuon |first=Marshall |title=About Cars: Slow Down, Roast's Ready |work=New York Times |date=1989-09-24 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6D91438F937A1575AC0A96F948260 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130113905/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/sports/about-cars-slow-down-roast-s-ready.html |access-date=2007-11-10 |archive-date=2013-01-30}}{{cite news |last=Stock |first=Jon |title=Meals on wheels |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2002-12-21 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2002/12/20/emfcuk21.xml |access-date=2007-11-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111000000/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2719586/Meals-on-wheels.html |archive-date=2018-11-11}}{{cite web |url=https://www.eater.com/23749614/manifold-destiny-the-one-the-only-guide-to-cooking-on-your-car-engine-chris-maynard-bill-scheller |title='Manifold Destiny' Is the Apotheosis of Dude Cooking |last=Levitt |first=Aimee |date=2023-06-27 |access-date=2023-07-31 |work=Eater}}

The authors claimed inspiration from a trip from Montreal to Boston, where the authors were inspired to keep a package of smoked meat from Schwartz's in Montreal hot by placing it in a secure spot on the car's engine block, having heard that it was said to be common for truckers to keep cans of soup hot by doing the same thing.