The Record of Banishing Evil with Cuisine: Taming horrors with the tongue, easing grudges with a hundred flavors
One pot cooks away the strangest grievances under heaven;
A five-flavor blade cuts down every evil spirit in the world.
In an imagined ancient world, there is a secret profession known as the “banisher-chef.” Using unusual ingredients as their guide and ancient cooking methods as their craft, they handle supernatural cases that haunt the living.
Lin Yan, a banisher-chef of extraordinary talent, can “taste” the lingering obsessions and memories of the dead. His knife can dissect the deepest anguish of vengeful spirits, while the flames of his stove can simmer the fiercest evil between heaven and earth. From a peach grove that withered overnight to an old well that gushes blood at midnight, each bizarre incident is a “baneful dish” waiting to be deciphered.
He does not work alone. A strategist versed in the past and present, a guard with a special bloodline, and a contact with far-reaching intelligence join him to form a one-of-a-kind investigative team. They discover that behind the scattered cases of supernatural horrors lies a dark sacrificial rite that has endured for decades, fueled by the resentful qi of the five elements. The ancient forbidden text The Hundred Explanations of Baneful Cuisine and the terrifying legacy known as “Yan” are turning the human world into a kitchen for preparing the ultimate “baneful dish.”
The Record of Banishing Evil with Cuisine is a suspenseful adventure epic rooted in Chinese culinary philosophy, folk tales of the strange, and modern mystery storytelling. It weaves together the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine, food therapy, and folk legends, balancing insight with spectacle. It offers the thrill of outsmarting enemies and solving mysteries, sumptuous descriptions of cooking, and profound themes of human nature, memory, and obsession.
Join Lin Yan's team as they enter a strange world where cooking smoke mingles with ghostly shadows. Watch them take up knives as their pens and fire as their ink to write an epic “Classic of Mountains and Seas at the tip of your tongue.”
