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...morning light was creeping across the Indian Ocean as the 10,000-ton Miami-based cruise ship Seabourn Spirit motored south along the Somali coast just over a week ago. Most of the 312 people aboard--151 passengers and 161 crew members--were asleep; the boat was expected in Mombasa, Kenya, that afternoon. Then, out of the gloom, came a burst of gunfire. Passengers later said they saw inflatable rubber boats speeding toward the Spirit, each carrying four or five men dressed in black and armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. As the pirates drew closer, they began...
...carrying cargo that belonged to all Somalians," says Mahalingam. "I said, 'This is for your own people. Why are you doing this?'" Three days after the hijacking, the answer became clear. The pirates contacted the Semlow's owner, Inayet Kudrati, 54, director of the Motaku Shipping Agency based in Mombasa, and demanded that he pay a $500,000 ransom for the ship and crew. "I told them I didn't have that kind of money," says Kudrati, speaking to TIME two weeks...
...Three days after the hijacking, he got his reply. A man arrived from the mainland with a note. It told Mahalingam to radio the Semlow's owners in Mombasa, Kenya, and give them two telephone numbers: one for a mobile phone, the other for a Thuraya satellite phone. Inayet Kudrati, 54, director of the Motaku Shipping Agency, which has had three of its four boats hijacked by Somali pirates since June, received the call and was eventually told he should pay $500,000 if he wanted the ship and crew back. "I told them I didn't have that kind...
...That afternoon, says Mahalingam, a small boat flying a white flag approached. Somali negotiators had sent it to escort the Semlow to a Somali port where it could offload the rice it was still carrying. Mahalingam, who a fortnight ago finally made it back to Mombasa, four months after first setting out, and is now home in Sri Lanka, radioed the Torgelow, a sister ship that was carrying tea and coffee for Somali traders as well as food and oil for the Semlow. But instead of hearing the captain's voice on the radio, Mahalingam heard a familiar Somali accent...
...what develops is a luxury cuisine based on time and money." Co-author Chauhan, himself a Kenyan-born Indian, has substituted olive oil for ghee, reflecting modern health concerns. The result is a compendium of dishes that will have the home chef salivating. Prawns are slow-cooked with fenugreek, Mombasa-style; there's a decadent (but narcotic-free) dish called Opium Eggs; and pork is prepared with tamarind, chili and red wine. Conservative use of spices is another feature of the book...