(released in the UK as Too Many Chefs) is a 1978 black comedy mystery film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley.

Natasha "Nat" O'Brien is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for Elizabeth II, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer.

Natasha's ex-husband, Robert "Robby" Ross, is a fast-food entrepreneur ("the Taco King") serving the "everyman" consumer while she caters to the affluent.

Max is the "calamitously fat" grand gourmand publisher of a gourmet magazine Epicurious and is the patron of several famous European chefs, each renowned for a signature dish.

When Natasha arrives, Max is gloating over his latest issue, featuring "the world's most fabulous meal," which highlights the culinary masterpieces of his favorite chefs.

After completing the meal at Buckingham Palace, Natasha has a one-night fling with chef Louis Kohner whose specialty is baked pigeon in crust.

After more questioning, this time by Venice police, Natasha receives a call from Robby to come to Paris to help prevent one member of a group of French chefs from being murdered.

(Warner Bros.) is one more attempt to get fun out of homicide, an idea that sometimes succeeds but doesn't here because the script lacks focus, brightness, and pace, and the direction limps along after it.'.