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Cinnamon and Gunpowder

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Cinnamon and Gunpowder

De: Eli Brown
Narrado por: James Langton
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Eli Brown's Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade—with the best food ever served aboard a pirate'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 that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he's making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.

But Mabbot—who exerts a curious draw on the chef—is 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 Mabbot'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 epicure's adventure simmered over a surprisingly touching love story—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.

An NPR Best Book of the Year (2013)

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Food porn and rip-roaring pirate adventure are two great tastes that taste great together in Eli Brown's rollicking Cinnamon and Gunpowder.” —Petra Mayer, NPR.org

“[An] early 19th-century tale of culinary seduction and swashbuckling antics, featuring characters who evoke the desperate ingenuity of Scheherazade and the hell-bent ruthlessness of Ahab . . . Brown explores the mysteries of flavor with prose that any word-savoring foodie will delight in . . . The story, the characters, and the ingenious battle scenes are far too colorful for moral dilemmas, which are made irrelevant when Mabbot is revealed as something of a humanitarian out to reset the wrongs of British imperialism.” —Publishers Weekly

“Brown concocts a clever tale in which history, ethics, action, and romance blend harmoniously. Tantalizing descriptions of the smells and flavors of the dishes Wedgwood creates may send readers running to their spice cabinets in search of the blends he exalts in, even as they are entranced by Brown's delectable tale.” —Amber Peckham, Booklist

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Charming, funny, and thrilling, but deeply honest and sad at times as well. A wonderful read for a rainy day, and definitely something I will come back to.

A Wonderful Adventure

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Horrible character development. Didn’t like any of them. Great story concept but not carried out well.

Interesting premise

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I thoroughly enjoyed this read from start to finish, great characters and a bawdy adventure!

A lovely tale!

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The chef is forced to be resourceful in many different ways.He has to shed excess baggage. The pirate captain has her ways. The crew are true pirates. I loved the creativeness and the narrator.

NOT THE USUAL PIRATE STORY

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GIVE THIS BOOK A CHANCE!! If you enjoy an adventurous thrilling tale involving pirates, good food, and silly humor, then this is a perfect book for you. The entire story kept me on my toes. With an elaborate description of the adventure our chef finds himself thrown into, I couldn’t stop listening. The vocabulary used to describe the meals he is forced to prepare nearly had my own stomach grumbling. Who would’ve thought that food prepared with a bowling ball as a rolling pin would sound so good? I loved the varying characters with their widely different personalities, especially Mr. Apples and his unique descriptions for everything. Sometimes I even found myself laughing out loud at the weird antics and situations Wedgewood came upon. The narration was amazing, I could literally play out every chapter like a movie in my head. I cannot wait to read it again, this one is definitely being marked as one of my favorites!!

Loved every minute of it!!! 10/10

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Nice story, new ideas, kept me interested but not invested in the characters. The cooking aspect was a new twist and I liked that, the rest was fairly average.

Not bad-Not terrrific

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Loved every bit of this book. From the bang of a start to the meal descriptions, unfolding action, loss, love, and redemption.
I am left forever mourning the memory of the characters in this book.

Witty, sweet and hilarious adventure.

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Silly story but good fantasy for a change of pace instead of dysfunctional families and war stories.

Cinnamon and gunpowder

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Good, but not overly compelling. I enjoyed moments, but seemed to drag on at points.

Good, but not overly compelling

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I loved this book. It was recommended to me by someone else, when I read the description I didn’t have high expectations. I could not put it down, so much better than I expected.

My new favorite

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