The Spice Necklace
A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure
-
- 13,99 €
-
- 13,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
A follow-up to the national bestseller An Embarrassment of Mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband navigate the Caribbean on a sailboat, discovering local culture in each tiny port, and collecting sumptuous original recipes along the way.
Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean cooking, adding more to the pleasures of the table here than perhaps anywhere else. In The Spice Necklace, award-winning food and travel writer Ann Vanderhoof embarks on a voyage of culinary discovery, as she follows her nose (and her tastebuds) into tiny kitchens and fragrant markets, through rainforest gardens and to family cookups on the beach, linking each food to its traditions, folklore and history.
Meandering from island to island by sailboat, Vanderhoof takes readers along as she gathers nutmeg in Grenada, hunts crabs and freshwater crayfish in the mountains of Dominica, and obsesses about oregano-eating goats in the Dominican Republic. Along the way, she is befriended by a collection of unforgettable island characters who share with her their own delicious recipes, making this truly a book to savour.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this sunny cookbook-cum-travelogue. Vanderhoof (An Embarrassment of Mangoes) and her perpetually hungry husband ditched their Toronto publishing careers to sail around the eastern Caribbean ingesting as much of the island cultures as possible. Each chapter finds them coming ashore to sample restaurants and cuisine, visit farms and processing sites, and learn to make exotic local dishes. (Vanderhoof s kitchen mentors try to keep her away from sharp utensils, but she manages to acquire 71 recipes for everything from stewed goat to mango chow. ) The result is a pleasant picaresque, as the couple take in Trinidadian herb plantations or a Grenadian chocolate factory or embark on a ribald quest for an aphrodisiac seaweed on St. Lucia. They endure lousy rental cars and encounter rudeness on Guadeloupe, but for the most part they marinade happily in the gorgeous scenery and the ebullient wisdom of friendly island characters. (One Dominican Rastafarian cooks a great stew and also moonlights as a midwife.) The book is a dizzying whirl of tourism and food porn, but Vanderhoof s breezy, evocative prose makes it pretty tasty.
