![]() ![]() His first real triumph is a bread starter - simple enough when you have access to yeast, warmth and clean water, but not so easy when you're reduced to scraping yeast rime off ancient raisins and tapping coconuts for their water. "By far the most arresting are the rats, so bold and so many.Certainly there are staples here to feed the horde, but proper ingredients for cuisine?"īut feed the horde (and the captain) Wedgwood does, with a Regency-era MacGyver ingenuity. "These are the desolate contents of the hold," Wedgwood wails in his journal. The Rose's larder isn't promising its meager stores include heavy cornmeal "with scattered weevils," garlic, lard, vinegar, limes, rum, and a villainous preserved mystery meat the sailors call "Mary Sweet." Owen Wedgwood is the brilliant but rather prissy chef to shipping magnate Lord Ramsey - until privateer captain "Mad Hannah" Mabbot shoots Ramsey at point-blank range and takes Wedgwood prisoner, charging him to earn his keep by preparing her one magnificent dinner a week, using only the ingredients he can find on her ship, the Flying Rose. ![]() How?įood porn and rip-roaring pirate adventure are two great tastes that taste great together in Eli Brown's rollicking Cinnamon and Gunpowder. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Cinnamon and Gunpowder Author Eli Brown ![]()
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