Nana's recipe book opens on a fish curry with peppercorns in its spine, and the green door opens on Calicut, the greatest pepper port in the world. Mei is sure spices were only for hiding bad meat, so she pours a merchant's finest pepper into the pot. Now a sack has been stolen, a ship sails at dusk, a storm is coming, and the only clue is the road the pepper travels.
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Book details
- Series
- Kitchen Lab, Book 2
- Ages
- 10–12
About the Kitchen Lab series
Kitchen Lab is a series of illustrated adventures for readers aged ten to twelve about food: where it comes from, who first made it, and the science happening in every pot. Cousins Lucas, who is always hungry, and Mei, who is always testing, cook from their grandmother's old recipe book, and each recipe with a line rubbed out opens the pantry door onto the time and place it came from. Each book delivers one food topic through real history and real kitchen science.
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