Great Chefs of the Caribbean: Signature Recipes from the Islands

by Julia M. Pitkin (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620452585
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/01/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	6 MB

Editorial Reviews

This is a collection of 146 recipes from 44 chefs who work at 30 restaurants from 17 islands in the Caribbean. These foods are considered the best of Caribbean cooking, as seen on the Great Chefs television series.

Sometimes a dish requires more than one recipe to complete it, such as for the Caribbean lobster spring roll appetizer. This breakdown of recipes on the same page will make it easier to follow the recipe in your kitchen, but most aren't likely to be speedy because they require a lot of steps.

Tips on how to prepare parts of the dishes ahead and lush color photos of many of the recipes will both inspire you to attempt to recreate the recipes. They also will show you how to present the foods so your plates can look as glamorous as those in the fancy restaurants they represent.

As you might expect from recipes that come from the islands, most of the appetizers and entrees use fish or seafood. You'll also discover both new and traditional ways to prepare chicken, duck, pork, veal and lamb, but no beef.

The extensive dessert section often includes recipes for exotic fruits and ingredients as well as many for such easily located items such as bananas and pineapple.

The book includes a list of places to find unusual ingredients, a glossary of unusual foods, short chef biographies and several basic recipes for stocks, glazes and sauces.
—The Tennessean

Thayer Wine