Sweet Hands


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Callalloo and Buss Up Shut, Mother-in-Law And Kuchela, Chip Chip and Doubles. The verbiage of Trinidad's cuisine is both lyrical and mysterious. The variety of foods from this Caribbean nation and their fanciful names tell the story of a rich and eclectic cultural heritage. A British colony from 1779 until 1962, during those years Trinidad & Tobago's population grew to include East Indian and Chinese indentured servants who worked in the sugar plantations alongside former African slaves. Trinidadian food is marked by the blending of these cultures. As such, curry, Indian breads, callaloo (a soup of West African origin), and fried rice are all among the national dishes. The book includes these dishes, as well as many others, including Shrimp Creole, Beef Stew with Dumplings, and Ginger Beer. Also included are fascinating histories and anecdotes on such topics as Trinidadian rum, Buccaneer Cooking, and Black Cake. Beautiful photographs! by Jean-Paul Vellotti bring this beautiful island nation and its unique cuisine to life.







Irresistible Trinidad Recipes


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Have you ever experienced Trinidad cuisine? Do you find Trinidadian foods extremely tempting that you crave them all day long? Do you want to learn more about it? Do you know you don't have to travel so far to get your authentic recipes? What's more? You don't need to wait until your next vacation to have a taste. Thrilling, right? We knoww! We have brought Trinidad right to your doorstep. People who go on vacation to Trinidad don't have high hopes when it comes to food, but they are always taken by surprise because of the wide variety of dishes available. This cookbook helps you to explore different dishes from this region with influences from Middle-East, Europe, China, India, and Africa. Would you like to integrate exquisite" Trini" tastes into your recipes any day, anywhere, and at any time? You have come to the right place. This cookbook has all kinds of Trinidad cooking ideas for you, which is a good thing because the diversity of Trinidadian meals is deeper than you imagine. You may think that all their meals are spicy, but that is not true. You know what? Why don't we skip the thinking part and start making them; these will provide more answers than this description ever could. Come learn something new.




I Am a Filipino


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Filipino food is having its moment. Sour, sweet, funky, fatty, bright, rich, tangy, bold—no wonder adventurous eaters like Anthony Bourdain consider Filipino food “the next big thing.” But so do more mainstream food lovers—Vogue declares it “the next great American cuisine.” Filipinos are the second-largest Asian population in America, and finally, after enjoying Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese food, we’re ready to embrace Filipino food, too. Written by trailblazing restaurateurs Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad, I Am a Filipino is a cookbook of modern Filipino recipes that captures the unexpected and addictive flavors of this vibrant and diverse cuisine. The techniques (including braising, boiling, and grilling) are simple, the ingredients are readily available, and the results are extraordinary. There are puckeringly sour adobos with meat so tender you can cut it with a spoon, along with other national dishes like kare-kare (oxtail stew) and kinilaw (fresh seafood dressed in coconut milk and ginger). There are Chinese-influenced pansit (noodle dishes) and lumpia (spring rolls); Arab-inflected cuisine, with its layered spicy curries; and dishes that reflect the tastes and ingredients of the Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans who came to the Philippines and stayed. Included are beloved fried street snacks like ukoy (fritters), and an array of sweets and treats called meryenda. Filled with suitably bold and bright photographs, I Am a Filipino is like a classic kamayan dinner—one long, festive table piled high with food. Just dig in!




Trinidad Recipes Cookbook


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Most Wanted Trinidadian Recipes (Trinidad & Tobago) Trinidad recipes are not only traditional! Anyone who has tasted “Trini” cooking can admit that it's absolutely mouthwatering. These recipes are quick and easy to make because usually it's just a matter of knowing how to do it. This book will serve as your perfect guide. The ingredients in these recipes capture the Trinidadian island flavors, and you can usually get them at supermarkets or food stores worldwide. There are some Trinidad Recipes that everyone would certainly enjoy. You will find these very recipes in this book. With "Trinidad Recipes Cookbook: Most Wanted Trinidad Cooking Recipes" you'll be able to arrest the delightful "Trini" flavors in the comfort of your home. Experience the Caribbean; enjoy the taste! Get Your Copy Today




America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook


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The smells in the kitchen, the unforgettable flavors—these powerful memories of food, family, and tradition are intertwined and have traveled down from generations past to help make us the people we are today. Soul food is just as wide-ranging and satisfying as soul music. Tavis Smiley’s America I AM four-year traveling museum exhibit and New York Times bestseller Chef Jeff Henderson have joined forces to create the America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook to honor and preserve African Americans collective family food histories and legacies. Over 100, soul-filled and soul-inspired family recipes collected from contributors’ across the country, are featured. Each contribution demonstrates how powerful recollections of food, family and tradition have traveled down to us from generations past to help make us the people we are today. Indeed, history lives at the kitchen table. "What better way to showcase America’s diverse and delicious traditions than through the unifying power of food," says Smiley. Each cookbook contributor submitted a favorite family recipe and a brief accompanying family food imprint story reflecting on the significance of the dish. What makes this cookbook special is that everyone has a favorite family food memory to share—whether it was grandma’s peach cobbler, Aunt Sarah’s collard green soufflé or Cousin Dan’s barbecued beef ribs. Recipes range from traditional southern cooking to the new soulful recipes of twenty-first century cooks. Under the editorial direction of Chef Jeff Henderson, the America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook becomes a prized possession for fans of soulful cooking from the heart.




Caribbean Recipes


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Caribbean Recipes "Old & New"is a comprehensive Caribbean cookbook with over 400 recipes, some originals plus new recipes created in the Caribbean style of cooking. Many recipes come from the author’s restaurant, "The Cove" in Barbados. The book is written in the style of a family memoir as the author tells of gatherings and cooking experiences throughout her life. The book includes some of the author’s biography, hints and substitutes concerning food preparation, and a glossary of Caribbean foods. Each chapter is color-coded in bright Caribbean colors and contains a little story followed by the appropriate recipes and food photography. The pages are illustrated with original watercolor art sketches done by the author’s father, Gordon Parkinson, who is an artist well known throughout the Caribbean. The book is printed in large font for ease of reading, with recipes that are easy to follow. It also contains a page at the end entitled "My own recipes" for you to add any new or given Caribbean recipes.




Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge


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Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for International Cooking, this is the authoritative guide to stir-frying: the cooking technique that makes less seem like more, extends small amounts of food to feed many, and makes ingredients their most tender and delicious. The stir-fry is all things: refined, improvisational, adaptable, and inventive. The technique and tradition of stir-frying, which is at once simple yet subtly complex, is as vital today as it has been for hundreds of years—and is the key to quick and tasty meals. In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, award-winning author Grace Young shares more than 100 classic stir-fry recipes that sizzle with heat and pop with flavor, from the great Cantonese stir-fry masters to the culinary customs of Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as other countries around the world. With more than eighty stunning full-color photographs, Young’s definitive work illustrates the innumerable, easy-to-learn possibilities the technique offers—dry stir-fries, moist stir-fries, clear stir-fries, velvet stir-fries—and weaves the insights of Chinese cooking philosophy into the preparation of beloved dishes as Kung Pao Chicken, Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli, Chicken Lo Mein with Ginger Mushrooms, and Dry-Fried Sichuan Beans.




Spicebox Kitchen


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A renowned chef and physician shares her secrets to a healthy life in this cookbook filled with healthy recipes that will fuel and energize your body and mind. "I like to think of a spicebox as the cook's equivalent of a doctor's bag--containing the essential tools to use in the art of cooking. Learning to use spices is the best way to add interest and vibrancy to simple home cooking."—from the Introduction In her first cookbook, chef and physician Linda Shiue puts the phrase "let food be thy medicine" to the test. With 175 vegetarian and pescatarian recipes curated from her own kitchen, Dr. Shiue takes you on a journey of vibrant, fresh flavors through a range of spices from amchar masala to za'atar. With a comprehensive "Healthy Cooking 101" chapter, lists of the healthiest ingredients out there, and tips for prevention, Spicebox Kitchen is a culinary wellness trip you can take in your own kitchen.




115 Greatest Caribbean Recipes of All Time


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The most comprehensive Caribbean recipe book, packed full with 115 classic, authentic Caribbean recipes covering 26 Islands. Featuring every Caribbean recipe you have heard of and more! This is the long-awaited follow-up to Grace Barrington-Shaw's first cookbook; 'Most Popular Caribbean Recipes Quick & Easy'. Now with her latest book, '115 Greatest Caribbean Recipes of All Time', Grace returns to provide a huge array of fantastic Caribbean cuisine classics, across 26 varied islands. A wide collection of 115 authentic Caribbean recipes This cookbook features 115 authentic Caribbean recipes, well known and loved across the Caribbean and the world. Favorite dishes you've either grown up with as a native, experienced on vacation or are yet to experience as part of your dream vacation! 26 Islands represented, each with their unique individual tastes! The extensive choice of dishes demonstrates the historical melting pot of influences from all over the globe, that culminate in the islands' varying tastes. Included are wonderful islands such as Aruba, Bahamas, Caymans, Curacao, Guadeloupe and Montserrat, as well as the ever-popular islands of Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and many others. Grace takes you on a culinary journey across the Caribbean, showcasing each island's greatest recipes and allowing you to experience fantastically flavorsome signature dishes. Here is a sample of the Caribbean classics that you can expect to create: Aruba: Bolita di Keshi Arepa Banana den Forno Bahamas: Bahama Papa Goombay Smash Cayman Islands: Seared Lionfish Cayman Triangle Cuba: Medianoche Ropa Vieja Cubano Haiti: Poule en Sauce Sos Pwa Barbados: Cou Cou Flying Fish Jamaica: Jerk Chicken Ackee and Saltfish Carrot Juice Puerto Rico: Mofongo Chicken Asopao And so many more! Are you searching for Caribbean recipes, from a wider variety of islands? Every effort has been made to cover West Indian food in its entirety, rather than to focus on the usual islands. Here, you can discover the favorite foods of Islands such as Montserrat, Netherlands Islands, Saint Barthelemy, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin & St Maarten, Turks and Caicos and US Virgin Islands. This is your ultimate collection of West Indian classical cuisine. Treat this enormous 115 recipe collection as your ultimate Caribbean recipe bible.Re-create many styles of the West Indian vibe in your own home, with easy to follow recipes. Surprise and tantalize loved ones and find dishes that the whole family will enjoy. With 115 recipes from 26 Islands, you will never be bored of the Caribbean...Choose your island and transport yourself to paradise.