Give your meals an exotic touch with the ingredients you find in your market. Caribbean style adds fruit and spice to chicken and fish as well as desserts. Try Chicken Trinidad, Jerk-seasoned Pork, Coffee-Cocoa-spiced Lamb, Shrimp Saute, Stacked Key Lime Pie, Coconut Layer Cake, Creme Brulee, other tropical dishes demonstrated on Great Chefs of the Caribbean.
Inspired by his childhood in St. Thomas and his current position as head chef at Fat Turtle on the island, Julius Jackson brings a collection of Caribbean recipes that are as diverse as his talents and notoriety. Not only is he a well-known, award-winning chef, but a respected Olympic boxer as well. Drawing from West Indian, Cajun, African and traditional Caribbean cuisine, Julius encourages beginning and experienced home-cooks to play with these unique and bold flavors that are inspiring trendy Caribbean restaurants all over?including Pearl NYC. Recipes include Johnny Cakes with Cheese, Seafood Kallaloo, Curry Mutton, Pigeon Peas and Rice and Tropical Fruit Punch that will wow guests or spice up a weekday dinner. Readers will not want to miss Cooking from Paradise Island?s take on Caribbean dishes from the vibrant culinary melting-pot of St. Thomas. This book will include over 70 recipes and 70 photos.
From the French room of the Four Seasons Clift Hotel in San Francisco to Giramonti Restaurant in Mill Valley, thirteen of the Bay area's finest chefs will guide readers through 64 mouth-watering dishes.
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.
Bringing together the styles and techniques of some of the most highly regarded chefs in North America, this book serves up a unique collection of menus. The recipes embrace the diverse and innovative talents of such exciting, renowned Relais & Ch�teaux chefs as Patrick O'Connell, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller and Jean-Georges Vongerichten , each of whom has been awarded Grand Chef status by Relais & Ch�teaux. From the technically challenging and groundbreaking to classic and traditional, the recipes featured all encourage the use of the freshest ingredients, locally sourced wherever possible. This is the second time that every chef within Relais & Ch�teaux in North America has collaborated to produce a cookbook, and with recipes for every level of ability, this book will bring hours of pleasure and achievement to all enthusiastic cooks, and hopefully awaken dormant talent in others.
Chef Daniel Orr spent years working in high-stress Manhattan kitchens before shifting gears and heading to the calm, turquoise waters of Anguilla in the British West Indies. Ever the student of world cuisine and an expert in combining the best of his local environment and global training, Orr unleashes the flavors of the island with his inspired dishes in Paradise Kitchen. Tales of island culture, local traditions, and personal discoveries add flavor to the chef's recipes for morning, midday, and evening meals, including tapas. Orr's innovative drink recipes using local fruits, spices, and herbs carry you through the day—from morning smoothies to sunset cocktails, after-dinner teas and flavored rums. Cookbook, memoir, and travel guide, this delightful book invites home cooks to savor the culinary joys of the Caribbean.
Foreword by Gordon Ramsay This compilation of 110 recipes from a Hell's Kitchen winner and award-winning chef takes a healthier approach to cuisines that are often underrepresented in cookbooks. Chef Ariel Fox introduces you to both classic recipes as well as innovative new dishes in Spice Kitchen: Healthy Latin and Caribbean Cuisine in a way that works for all lifestyles. This book has something for everyone, including information on how to maximize your pantry, simple recipes, and useful suggestions for adapting the dishes to any diet. Ariel made the decision to change her lifestyle, learn about nutrition, and get in the greatest shape of her life while still maintaining a connection to the foods she grew up eating. Now she's here to share her decades of experience and knowledge with you. This cookbook will be a fantastic addition to your kitchen, whether you are looking for healthier alternatives to the nostalgic flavors of your childhood or are new to Latin and Caribbean foods.
Forgione, whose culinary vision resulted in the rebirth of farmers' markets across the country and the new availability of such quality ingredients as "free-range chicken", has finally produced his master cookbook. These 200 mouth-watering recipes reclaim the honest, soul-satisfying flavors of classic American cooking, often with a distinctive twist. Three 8-page color inserts. Color glossary.
