![]() Shocked by the wanton bloodshed and outraged at having to feed a murdering villain to save his life, Wedgwood plots his escape, even as he bends his skills to play culinary Scheherazade.įor the story to work, Mabbot must succumb to Wedgwood’s galley magic, which makes her a woman of taste and refinement, of a higher sensibility than your garden-variety buccaneer. ![]() ![]() But Mad Hannah Mabbot crashes the dinner, kills Ramsey and others, and brings the cook back to her ship, Flying Rose. His lordship has brought Wedgwood to cater a weekend party of company officials at the seaside town of Eastbourne. The year is 1819, and Owen Wedgwood serves Lord Ramsey, director of the Pendleton Trading Company, as personal chef. ![]() View on the Pearl River, Macao, by Eduard Hildebrandt, 1850 (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons). ![]()
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