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The general's cook / by Ramin Ganeshram.

The general's cook / by Ramin Ganeshram.
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Large Print General   Tea Gardens . On Loan . 17 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781432861018 (hardcover)
Shelf Location LP/GAN
Author Ganeshram, Ramin author.
Title The general's cook / / by Ramin Ganeshram.
Edition Large print
Place of publication , ©
Publication Details Waterville, Maine ::
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,,
©2018.
Collation 551 pages (large print) ; : 23 cm. ;
General Note "Thorndike Press large print historical fiction."
Abstract/Summary Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theatre. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in the kitchen and rewarded far over and above even white servants, Hercules is enslaved in a city where most black Americans are free. Even while he masterfully manages his kitchen and the lives of those in and around it, Hercules harbours secrets, including the fact that he is learning to read and that he is involved in a dangerous affair with Thelma, a mixed-race woman, who, passing as white, works as a companion to the daughter of one of Philadelphia's most prestigious families. Eventually Hercules' carefully crafted intrigues fall apart and he finds himself trapped by his circumstance and the will of George Washington.
Subject Hercules,(Chef) Fiction.
Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 Fiction.
Slaves -- Fiction
United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction
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