Stanley Park is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001.
[1] Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw.
The novel uses a "Bloods vs. Crips" metaphor for the philosophical conflict between chefs such as Papier, who favour local ingredients and menus, and those such as his nemesis Dante Beale, who favour a hip, globalized, "post-national" fusion cuisine.
Papier also endures conflict with his father, an anthropologist studying homelessness in Vancouver's Stanley Park, who draws him into investigating the death of two children in the park.
In 2007, the novel was chosen for competition in Canada Reads, where it was championed by musician Jim Cuddy.