Eli Brown
A gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazadeâ€”with the best food ever served aboard a pirateâ€™s ship,The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail.,To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter thatÂ he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon heâ€™s making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.,But Mabbotâ€”who exerts a curious draw on the chefâ€”is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur hidden onÂ herÂ ship, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. As Wedgwood begins to sense a method to Mabbotâ€™s madness, he must rely on the bizarre crewmembers he once feared: Mr. Apples, the fearsome giant who loves to knit; Feng and Bai, martial arts masters sworn to defend their captain; and Joshua, the deaf cabin boy who becomes the son Wedgwood never had.,Cinnamon and Gunpowder, is a swashbuckling epicureâ€™s adventure simmered over a surprisingly touching love storyâ€”with a dash of the strangest, most delightful cookbook never written. Eli Brown has crafted a uniquely entertaining novel full of adventure: the Scheherazade story turned on its head, at sea, with food.
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Cinnamon and Gunpowder