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CINNAMON AND GUNPOWDER
Written by Eli Brown
2013; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (318 Pages)
Genre: shistorical fiction, adventure, cooking, sea
RATING: 4.5 STARS
When ruthless pirates take over his Master's house and murder him Chef Owen Wedgwood is kidnapped by their Captain, Mad Hannah Mabbot. She loves luxury items and so spares Owen's life if he can make her extravagant meals once a week - never repeating a recipe. Wanting to stay alive he uses the crude materials around him to make his own masterpie ...more
Written by Eli Brown
2013; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (318 Pages)
Genre: shistorical fiction, adventure, cooking, sea
RATING: 4.5 STARS
When ruthless pirates take over his Master's house and murder him Chef Owen Wedgwood is kidnapped by their Captain, Mad Hannah Mabbot. She loves luxury items and so spares Owen's life if he can make her extravagant meals once a week - never repeating a recipe. Wanting to stay alive he uses the crude materials around him to make his own masterpie ...more
This book included 2 things I adore-Pirates and cooking!
Chef Owen Wedgwood is abducted by a saucy pirate Captain "Mad" Hannah Mabbot . Mabbot is not mad at all, just misunderstood. Her shenanigans on the the high seas are a direct result of her hating how the merchant ships are smuggling slaves and opium, and she means to put a stop to it. I will admit the book was a bit slow for me, in the beginning, but it picked up about 4 chapters in. The characters are solid and the relationship between Ma ...more
Chef Owen Wedgwood is abducted by a saucy pirate Captain "Mad" Hannah Mabbot . Mabbot is not mad at all, just misunderstood. Her shenanigans on the the high seas are a direct result of her hating how the merchant ships are smuggling slaves and opium, and she means to put a stop to it. I will admit the book was a bit slow for me, in the beginning, but it picked up about 4 chapters in. The characters are solid and the relationship between Ma ...more
What happens when a swashbuckling, stubborn, and charismatic pirate meets an uptight, creative, and zesty chef? We end up with an amazing story on the high seas seasoned with passion, excitement, and a splash of history. I really enjoyed reading about Captain "Mad" Hannah Mabbot through the narrative of Owen Wedgwood, our captive chef aboard the Flying Rose. We learn so much about Hannah, her resentment for the opium trade of the 18th century, and her need to make amends with her life with the h
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A swashbuckling pirate adventure for foodies, this was a fun read. It is told in journal style from POV of a prissy willfully narrow minded chubby middle-aged chef kidnapped by the pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. Lots of amusing tidbits from narrator's name (Wedgewood) to a knitting first mate. Interspersed with descriptions of battles and escape attempts are descriptions of cooking for Mabbot- Wedgewood must cook a delectable meal each week for Mabbot to buy another week of life. Yes, there are paral
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Nov 09, 2022
Nancy
marked it as maybe
