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The Book of Perilous Dishes

2022 - Casemate Group

272 p.

  • 1798 Bucharest: A magical, dark adventure. A year full of intrigue and political machinations: a slave-chef lives in Bucharest, sought after by everyone. His cooking is sublime, satisfying even the sophisticated tastes of the Prince, who steals him from his rightful owner and installs him in the Palace. However, no one knows that the chef has in his possession a witch's recipe book: the Book of Perilous Dishes. The recipes in this magical book can bring about damaging sincerity, forgetfulness, the gift of prediction, or hysterical laughter. And the rightful owner of this book is fourteen-year-old Pâ tca, initiated in the occult arts. Pâ tca comes to Bucharest, to her uncle, Cuviosu Zăval, to recover this book, but she finds him murdered and the Book of Perilous Dishes has disappeared without trace. All that Zăval has left her is a strange map she must decipher. Traveling from Romania to France and on to Germany to do so, Patca's family's true past and powers are revealed, as is her connection to Sil
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