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#1 Posted : Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:13:02 AM(UTC)

In our markets, there are a lot of ingredients available that are used in Cuban & Puerto Rican cuisine.  I've decided to experiment with some of them; yuca, plantains, botaino, malanga, taro.


 


Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book on these Caribbean foods?


 

#2 Posted : Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:24:33 AM(UTC)
Miami Spice! It's not strictly on Caribbean food, but on the Latin American, Cuban and Caribbean foods of Florida. It's wonderful, and is pretty inexpensive on Amazon for a used copy. I think you'll find much of what you're looking for in it. I'm also pretty sure it's indexed here at EYB, so you can browse the recipes.
#3 Posted : Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:21:40 AM(UTC)
Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz's book on Caribbean Cooking is great -- recipes from all over the region. Taste of Cuba, Cuba Cocina! and Memories of a Cuban Kitchen are fine books specifically on Cuban food. Puerto Rican Cookery, A Taste of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rican Cuisine in America are the standards for Puerto Rican cooking. All are available inexpensively online.
#4 Posted : Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:51:49 AM(UTC)

My family goes to Puerto Rico every year at the beginning of January to ward off Seasonal Affective Disorder.  The cookbook I've used there for years is by Yvonne Ortiz (no relation to Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz), and it's called A Taste of Puerto Rico.  We wouldn't know we were in Puerto Rico without her sancocho.


This year my daughter gave me a copy of Angela Spenceley's A Taste of Puerto Rico.  The publisher is Coconut Press, P.O. Box 309540, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 00803.  There are some negative comments on Amazon about the book but they seem to refer to a 32-page pamphlet by Spenceley published by Caribbean Publishing.  The full-length book is 380 pages long.  As is typical with small-press books, the indexing and cross-reference are not strong, but the book itself is warm, generous, and true to the flavors I've learned to love in Puerto Rico over the last ... golly ... 20 years.  I'll cheerfully pack it up with Ortiz for next year's trip.

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