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The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by a beautiful yet ruthless pirate. He will be spared, Mad Hannah Mabbot tells him, as long as he can conjure an exquisite meal every Sunday from the ship's meager supplies. While Wedgwood attempts to satisfy his captor with feats such as tea-smoked eel and pineapple-banana cider, he realizes that Mabbot herself is under siege. Hunted by a deadly privateer and plagued by a saboteur, she pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox. Yet there is a method to Mabbot's madness, and as the Flying Rose races across the ocean, Wedgwood learns to rely on the bizarre crew members he once feared: a formidable giant who loves to knit; a pair of stoic martial arts masters, sworn to defend their captain; and the ship's deaf cabin boy, who becomes the son he never had. With Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown has given us a swashbuckling epicure's adventure simmered over a surprisingly touching love story - with a dash of the strangest, most delightful cookbook never written.

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Praise for The Great Days Accomplished and enormously powerful. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer With lyrical, confident prose, Brown makes August's dark journey a harrowing, convincing look into the heart of cult life that should linger with readers. -- Publishers Weekly

You'll savor every bite. --Petra Mayer, NPR A great beach read that doesn't sacrifice beautiful writing...Oh, Hannah! What a character she is--sexy, hilarious, tough, and with such heart. --Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia Original and exquisite...Salty, smart, and sensuous. Eli Brown unfurls a pirate story that's also an eloquent disquisition on human appetite and the mysteries of taste. --Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution A swashbuckler of a cookbook, and a romance, too. --BonApp�tit.com Accomplished and enormously powerful. --The Philadelphia Inquirer on The Great Days With lyrical, confident prose, Brown makes August's dark journey a harrowing, convincing look into the heart of cult life that should linger with readers. --Publishers Weekly on The Great Days

You'll savor every bite. --Petra Mayer, NPR A great beach read that doesn't sacrifice beautiful writing...Oh, Hannah! What a character she is--sexy, hilarious, tough, and with such heart. --Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia Original and exquisite...Salty, smart, and sensuous. Eli Brown unfurls a pirate story that's also an eloquent disquisition on human appetite and the mysteries of taste. --Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution A swashbuckler of a cookbook, and a romance, too. -- BonAppetit.com Praise for The Great Days Accomplished and enormously powerful. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer With lyrical, confident prose, Brown makes August's dark journey a harrowing, convincing look into the heart of cult life that should linger with readers. -- Publishers Weekly

You'll savor every bite. --Petra Mayer, NPR A great beach read that doesn't sacrifice beautiful writing...Oh, Hannah! What a character she is--sexy, hilarious, tough, and with such heart. --Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia Original and exquisite...Salty, smart, and sensuous. Eli Brown unfurls a pirate story that's also an eloquent disquisition on human appetite and the mysteries of taste. --Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution A swashbuckler of a cookbook, and a romance, too. --BonAppetit.com Accomplished and enormously powerful. --The Philadelphia Inquirer on The Great Days With lyrical, confident prose, Brown makes August's dark journey a harrowing, convincing look into the heart of cult life that should linger with readers. --Publishers Weekly on The Great Days

Author Information

Eli Brown lives on an experimental urban farm in Alameda, California. His writing has appeared in The Cortland Review and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader. His first novel, The Great Days, won the Fabri Literary Prize.

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