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description: A gripping adventure a seaborne romance and a twist on the tale of Scheherazadewith the best food ever served aboard a pirates shipThe 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 that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon hes making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.But Mabbotwho exerts a curious draw on the chefis under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur hidden on her ship she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. As Wedgwood begins to sense a method to Mabbots 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 epicures adventure simmered over a surprisingly touching love storywith 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.
language: English
title: Cinnamon and Gunpowder
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux