He wants her to keep cooking and baking tasty and healthy delicacies, and he wants her to help people and to use her scientific skills to find out who is doing all this poisoning.Īlong the way we get a critical perspective on child brides-the Emperor's father impregnated a girl with the Emperor when the girl was NINE, and about the worldwide kidnapping and assault of young women and girls. But Jinishi wants more from her (oh, not that! He's a eunuch). She finds poison in some of the make-up that is killing women, and solves this problem. In this volume, Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, an apothecary, who was kidnapped and sold to the Emperor, is now moving up the social ladder-cooking healthy food, inventing herbal cures for various ailments-promoted to food taster (ah, but a dangerous job!) by eunuch Jinishi, who favors her, since he has seen her cure ill people.Īs food taster at a large formal gathering, she tastes-and spits out-poisoned food, but a man eats it anyway, since no one had seen any ill effects from her eating it. I am not committed to reading this whole series yet, but I am happily surprised-given the "alluring" cover, typical of a lot of manga-how feminist this series really is.
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