Taste of the Caribbean


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A fabulous introduction to the delicious and exotic recipes of the Caribbean islands including information on their history, culture and the diverse range of culinary influences.




Taste the Islands


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Enjoy a fun and delicious journey through the Caribbean in this vibrant collection of gourmet and home-style recipes. Hugh Sinclair and Cynthia Verna, known as "Chef Irie" and "Chef Thia" on their television show Taste the Islands, introduce ingredients and flavors that open windows into the region's many cultures. Sinclair and Verna share their own recipes as well as traditional island favorites. Starting with "stop gap" snacks like fritters made from malanga root and continuing through desserts and cocktails, they include refreshing salads like pineapple pepper slaw, soups with "a healthy dose of soul" made with bases such as calabaza pumpkin or black beans, and main dishes such as curried goat or mussels chorizo in mango coconut sauce. From the authors' home nations of Jamaica and Haiti to St. Lucia, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, the communities represented in these dishes have deep histories. The recipes feature both native and colonial food traditions that have been passed down for generations and showcase African, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian influences. Sinclair and Verna also incorporate tastes and techniques from their international travels, capturing the eclectic variety of Caribbean cuisine today. Filled with colorful photographs and infused with the joy of two expert chefs celebrating the foods that are closest to their hearts, Taste the Islands brings the places, histories, and rhythms of the Caribbean into your home kitchen.




A Vegan Taste of the Caribbean


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This cookbook includes recipes for appetizers, soups and stews, curries, main courses, rice, vegetables, salads, chutneys, salsas and sauces, desserts, baking, and drinks. It offers more than 100 original recipes that are all free of animal products, as well as advice on maintaining a Caribbean pantry.




Tastes Like Home


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Guyanese food enthusiast and blogger Cynthia Nelson, who lives in Barbados, brings readers over 100 recipes from all over the Caribbean; all of which she has tried and tested herself and served to family and friends. But more than just recipes, Tastes Like Home is a conversation about food and how it connects and forms part of Caribbean identity.




A Taste of Paradise


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A Taste of Paradise is a guide to the preparation of delicious, easy to prepare foods with rich and authentic Caribbean flavors. These traditional foods form a natural, healthful diet with meals that are highly flavored and satisfying. The book provides over 200 traditional recipes for great tasting foods, many prepared with coconut cream. This book is more than an encyclopedia of traditional Dominican dishes. It explains how to prepare dishes, the selection and storage of tropical fruit, how to prepare plantains and cassava for cooking and how to obtain the most health benefit from foods. For example, it gives secrets on how to cook beans that are smooth and creamy and which avoid the formation of excess intestinal gas. This book was co-authored by a medical doctor board certified in preventive medicine




Caribbean Cooking


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From drinks and appetizers to entrees and desserts, here are almost 200 irresistible recipes from Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Cuba, and beyond. Each recipe is accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions for an outstanding array of cooking "a la caribe".




A Taste of the Tropics


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Travelling along the Equator with utensils in hand, chef and restaurateur Jay Solomon takes a journey through Cuba and Aruba to Hawaii and Indonesia, sharing his visions of paradise along the way. In his 145 recipes, he combines fruits and vegetables with spices, peppers, fish and piquant sauces.




Dorinda's Taste of the Caribbean


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By the author of A taste of Africa. A culinary mix from the French, Spanish, British, Indian, Amerindian, Dutch and Caribbean Africans. 100 dishes.




Caribbean Flavors


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The food of the Caribbean represents a fascinating fusion of cultures. The islands boast influences from Africa, East India, China, South America, Europe, South East Asia, Syria and the Lebanon. Each of these cultures has left its own unique mark on the food of the region evolving in their own way to produce a new type of fusion cuisine that is mouth-watering, spicy and delicious. And this is what Caribbean Flavors is all about. Here you will find recipes reflecting the authentic and indigenous foods of the various islands but you will also experience a new type of Caribbean fusion cooking with a brighter, fresher, modern twist. With over 150 recipes to chose from, this is Caribbean cooking for the 21st Century-a cuisine to make your taste buds jump for joy and your imagination carry you down the islands. So go ahead and enjoy a taste of the Caribbean today! This new paperback edition follows the highly successful hardback edition which was published last year. Wendy Rahamut is a successful Chef and writer, and is know throughout the Caribbean through working on Television and in Newspapers. She is often seem on BWIA`s in-flight shows




A Taste of the Caribbean


Book Description

Presents recipes for Caribbean dishes while introducing the people, geography, culture, and customs of the Islands.




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