Ghanaian Cooking at Its Best


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Ghanaian authentic cuisine in its colorful, spicy and delicious glory. 70 Authentic Ghanaian recipes and up to 200 food related images in color. Ghanaian Authentic Drinks and Smoothie. Ginger drink & Spicy tropical smoothie; Appetizers & Snacks e.g. Achomo, and donuts; Side dishes e.g. Kelewele, Tatale, Kaklo and Ablongo; Main course dishes e.g. Ghanaian stews and soups and of course Jollof rice. Desserts e.g. Tropical fruit pie and quick cake desserts. There are combinations of Ghanaian ingredients to create some amazing recipes. Cassava (Yucca) pudding & Gari pudding, Pineapple upside down spicy ginger cake on a bed of pineapple jam with cherries showered with shredded coconut flakes. Delicious! What a delight! This cookbook uses 250mls cup measurement in most of its recipes for simplicity. The cookbook is about Sue's interesting culinary family life from childhood to adulthood. Sue is passionate about cooking and eating Ghanaian cuisine, but she could not find a cookbook that captured the Ghanaian cuisine as she would want presented. She decided to write a Ghanaian cookbook to present her country's cuisine in the arty, edgy, spicy and delicious way it deserves. Sue was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana, West Africa. She is quadrilingual and speaks English, Fante, Ga, and Twi fluently. She lived in London, United Kingdom and worked in Business Administration and the Fashion industry for many years. She moved to the United States in 2005 and subsequently qualified as a Nurse. She designs clothes for herself and enjoys life with fashion flair whenever she can. She is a dedicated Smooth Jazz enthusiast and loves world music. She enjoys gardening, the arts, and loves to travel. Ghanaian cuisine is one of her many passions in life. Join her on her journey of recreating some amazing and exciting Ghanaian recipes in the cookbook. She has also evolved and revolutionized some Ghanaian ingredients to create some amazing recipes. Enjoy!




The Ghana Cookbook


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Designed as an introductory, but comprehensive cooking course that builds on basic flavors, textures, and cooking principles, and seasons them with stories, photography, and cultural explanations.




Rice


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Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; as main dish, side dish, and snack; in dishes savory and sweet. Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents, tastes, and textures depending on how it is cooked. In some dishes, it is crunchingly crispy; in others, soothingly smooth; in still others, somewhere right in between. Commingled or paired with other foods, rice is indispensable to the foodways of the South. As Twitty's fifty-one recipes deliciously demonstrate, rice stars in Creole, Acadian, soul food, Low Country, and Gulf Coast kitchens, as well as in the kitchens of cooks from around the world who are now at home in the South. Exploring rice's culinary history and African diasporic identity, Twitty shows how to make the southern classics as well as international dishes—everything from Savannah Rice Waffles to Ghanaian Crab Stew. As Twitty gratefully sums up, "Rice connects me to every other person, southern and global, who is nourished by rice's traditions and customs."




A Plate in the Sun


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A Plate in the Sun is a delicious fusion of Ghanaian, African and Western tastes brought together in easy to cook recipes, using readily available ingredients. Patti shares some of her favourites, from simple snacks and starters like bean fritters and kelewele, to wholesome main dishes like black-eye beans with smoked haddock and bacon. She also shares her take on classics like jollof rice and chicken peanut butter soup. Some of her creations include curried chicken-liver pie and plantain truffles. Patti is an inventive and inspiring cook who wants to light-heartedly entertain, as much as share her cooking experiences and ideas. She encourages you to relax, experiment and enjoy time in the kitchen and believes cooking good food is "50% knowledge, 50% adventure, and always fun." She is a Ghanaian with a truly international perspective and an exuberant and enthusiastic cook. Born and educated in Ghana, she spent a year in America as an exchange student and has lived in the UK since 1985. Most recently Patti is Front of House and a guest chef at the Jean-Christophe Novelli Academy Cookery School in Hertfordshire.




Flavour


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Over 170 recipes – sweet and savoury – for every day, every budget, every taste, in a cookbook that puts your appetite first from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of Eat Up. Organised by ingredient, Flavour helps you to follow your cravings, or whatever you have in the fridge, to a recipe. Creative, approachable and inspiring, this is cooking that, while focusing on practicality and affordability, leaves you free to go wherever your appetite takes you. It is a celebration of the joy of cooking and eating. Ruby encourages us to look at the best ways to cook each ingredient; when it’s in season, and which flavours pair well with it. With this thoughtful approach, every ingredient has space to shine; including store cupboard staples. These are recipes that feel good to make, eat and share, and each plate of food is assembled with care and balance. Including Hot and Sour Lentil Soup, Ghanaian Groundnut Chicken Stew, Glazed Blueberry Fritter Doughnuts, Mystic Pizza and Carrot and Feta Bites with Lime Yoghurt, this is a cookbook that focuses above all on flavour and freedom – to eat what you love.




The Cooking Gene


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2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts




Tropical Ghana Delights


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Tropical Ghana Delights is a contemporary Ghanaian cookbook that fuses traditional and non-traditional Ghanaian cooking techniques in a refreshing way. It features recipes made with tropical ingredients (infused with tropical fruits) and also highlights a less celebrated side of Ghanaian cooking - hors d'oeuvres.




Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen


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A New Yorker, Guardian, BookRiot, Kitchn, KCRW, and Literary Hub Best Cookbook of the Year A dazzling celebration of Palestinian cuisine, featuring more than 80 modern recipes, captivating stories and stunning travel photography. Yasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate stalls of Akka, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, through evergreen oases of date plantations in the Jordan Valley, to the fading fish markets of Gaza City. Palestinian food is winningly fresh and bright, centered around colorful mezze dishes that feature the region’s bountiful eggplants, peppers, artichokes, and green beans; slow-cooked stews of chicken and lamb flavored with Palestinian barahat spice blends; and the marriage of local olive oil with earthy za’atar, served in small bowls to accompany toasted breads. It has evolved over several millennia through the influences of Arabic, Jewish, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Bedouin cultures and civilizations that have ruled over, or lived in, the area known as ancient Palestine. In each place she visits, Khan enters the kitchens of Palestinians of all ages and backgrounds, discovering the secrets of their cuisine and sharing heartlifting stories.




The Africa Cookbook


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Gathers information on the unique foods of Africa and the lands they come from, and provides more than two hundred traditional and new recipes.




Olives, Lemons and Za'atar


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Tangy lemony tabbouleh, smoky, rich baba ghanouj, beautifully spiced lamb shank...the recipes in Olives, Lemons & Za'atar provide something irresistible for every occasion. These dishes represent the flavors of Rawia's Middle Eastern childhood with recipes copied faithfully from family cookbooks (her mother's most treasured harissa), and then developed with a creative flourish of her own. Her food is deeply personal and so she includes the classics but also the Mediterranean influences that come from summer holidays in Spain and living in Bay Ridge, the old Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn. The result is a sensational cross-cultural mix and provides you with everything you need to enjoy the best home cooking and share the most convivial Middle Eastern hospitality.