A Taste Of The Islands

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.

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

Learn how to cook delicious, authentic Jamaican food with this beautifully simple collection of traditional Jamaican recipes "Taste the Islands" is the national Caribbean cooking TV series and online authority, teaching viewers and visitors to create mouthwatering recipes from around the Caribbean. From hundreds of recipes on our Caribbean and West Indian cooking website, the most popular include traditional Jamaican recipes like fluffy fried dumplings, tender oxtail and sauce smothered brown stewed chicken. This beautifully illustrated, delightfully annotated recipe collection includes these flavor-filled Jamaican recipes and so much more. Inside you'll find: 50 all time favorite traditional Jamaican recipes including jerk sauce, steamed fish, curried goat and cornmeal porridge Recipes for the home or for large gatherings Beautiful full color images of the finished recipes Breathtaking full color images of the Jamaican landscape Interesting notes on the background and flavors of each recipe Easy to follow, step by step instructions for each recipe Alternate options for ingredients that may be challenging to find Tips and methods on how to handle some of the unique ingredients used in Jamaican and Caribbean cuisine A glossary of accessible but uniquely Caribbean ingredients A list of annual Jamaican culinary events to explore for your next vacation Whether you're trying Jamaican cuisine for the first time or you long for the flavors of home, this is the Jamaican cookbook for you. It also makes a great gift for friends and family. About Taste the Islands: TASTE THE ISLANDS is a half-hour cooking series featuring delightfully exotic, deliciously accessible Caribbean fare. Find it nationwide on PBS stations and Create TV.

Every year millions of people return home from the Caribbean enriched with enchanted memories of stunning sunsets and steel drum bands, but not everything has to be a fleeting memory or a briefly stored image. Now everyday can be a tropical experience, right in the comfort of your own home, because nothing says Caribbean like the taste of "Island cuisine". From the classic Jerk Chicken and the standard Rice and Beans famously marinade in Coconut milk, I’ve compiled a short list of traditional island favorites that are guaranteed to capture the diverse delights of the Caribbean.

Passion and creativity.Cooking is a graceful art, but it is also a simple one. It is a balancing act where you learn how to distribute the right amount of weight to ensure you do not topple over.But it is not complicated. In A Simple Touch! Chef Jack Stubbs guides you through a menu of mouth watering recipes he has perfected in his thirty-eight year career in the culinary arts. Baked Salmon with Spiced Mango Cream Sauce, Chicken Junkanoo, Fresh Fig Brandy Relish, and Banana Rum Cake are just a few of the simple, but extraordinary delicacies youll find which Jack has brought forth from his Bahamian background. As a chef, Jacks ultimate satisfaction is experiencing the smiles on the faces and the joy in the voices of his diners when they praise his tantalizing dishes. You can take away my hat, my scarf, my apron, my thermometer, my title, says Jack, but you cant take away the great joy and heartwarming feeling I have when the words ?ÇÿThat was fantastic! roll off my clients lips. With A Simple Touch! that same joy awaits you.

Tropical Palate taste of the islands is a compilation of Tantalizing, exotic, recipes from Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean. I have been preparing tropical exotic meals for my friends, family and co-workers for many years. Through their referrals, my unique style has taken me in different directions such as catering for Miami's elite, to owning restaurants, publishing three cookbooks, Miami Herald mention The Grio top 100 and NBC 6. I hope these recipes will enhance your taste buds beyond your expectations. There is an old saying, you never know how good the milk is until the cow dies. Growing up on a family estate in rural Jamaica, I never realized nor appreciated what it was to have such beauty and abundance growing all around me. I can sit back on the verandah and reminisce about the days of my mother's and grandmother's past. As I look out to where we had so many coffee trees loaded with ripe coffee ready to be picked, I recall how much I hated picking coffee. I could not bear to touch the camouflage lizards that were on the limbs. They used to scare the daylights out of me. I can still hear the sound of my mother's and grandmother's voices shouting "go pick the coffee! go chum the coffee! go parch the coffee!" If the coffee is parched too light, it's not strong enough, parched too dark, you have burnt it! Now it is known as different roasts and flavors. After beating and brewing the coffee, you can have a cup of the best coffee in the world. After all this hard work, you deserve to enjoy such delights as Lewis Property Freeze, Lewis Property Breeze, coffee cakes, ice cream and scones.