Caribbean South American category: 192 books
Lorena Garcia's New Latin Classics
Fresh Ideas for Favorite Dishes: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From Lorena Garcia, one of the country’s most popular Latina chefs and the co-star of NBC’s America’s Next Great Restaurant, comes a must-have cookbook for anyone who loves the bold, fresh flavors of the New Latin Cuisine.
What’s the secret to great Latin-inspired food? Create layers...
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
The Merchant of Havana
The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association
As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...
Fresh Mexico
100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
In her vivacious, fresh voice, Marcela Valladolid invigorates America’s taste for real Mexican food–dishes that can be accomplished on any busy weeknight but that still express the authentic flavors of her native cuisine.
Growing up in Mexico, Marcela Valladolid rejoiced in the complex...
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
Delicious Meals Made With Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Ziggy is the best-known and most successful of Bob Marley's children.
The approximately 50 recipes included in the book are from Ziggy, Bob Marley, Rita Marley, Karen Marley, Orly Marley, as well as celebrity chefs Bruce Sherman, Ben Ford, and Douglas Rodriguez.
The book will be full-color,...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
Cuba!
Recipes and Stories from the Cuban Kitchen: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Cuba! explores the magic of this vibrant country through more than 75 recipes that will set taste buds on fire and stories that will delight even the most well-seasoned traveler.
Brazen, bold, and colorful, Cuba is a country that pulses with life. Fascinated by its people and their endlessly...
The Pepper Pantry: Habanero
A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Get acquainted with one of the most distinctive flavors the chile world has to offer: the fruity, hot habanero. This die-cut little book offers approximately thirty recipes, from the basics (Essential Habanero Hot Sauce) to the unexpected (Creole Peanut Soup-a West African-influenced treat with habaneros,...
Mallmann on Fire
100 Inspired Recipes to Grill Anytime, Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Featured on the Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table
“Elemental, fundamental, and delicious” is how Anthony Bourdain describes the trailblazing live-fire cooking of Francis Mallmann. The New York Times called Mallmann’s first book, Seven Fires, “captivating” and “inspiring.”...
Recetario de Cocina Mexicana Tomo I
La cocina mexicana hecha fácil
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Hoy en día la cocina mexicana es popular en casi todas partes del mundo. Su gastronomía se caracteriza por la originalidad y diversidad en cada uno de sus platillos siendo muy variados y ricos en sabores distintivos y exóticos.
Aunque los platos son muy tentadores, no obstante se presentan...
by Lorena García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 29, 2015
«Su casa estará llena de deliciosos olores y sabores gracias a estas recetas fáciles de seguir». —Art Smith, chef de Oprah Winfrey y autor best-seller
Una de las chefs preferidas de Estados Unidos da un giro saludable y emocionante a la mejor comida callejera de América Latina
El...
New Orleans con Sabor Latino
The History and Passion of Latino Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
New Orleans con Sabor Latino is a documentary cookbook that draws on the rich Latino culture and history of New Orleans by focusing on thirteen New Orleanian Latinos from diverse backgrounds. Their stories are compelling and reveal what for too long has been overlooked. The book celebrates the influence...
The Peruvian Kitchen
Traditions, Ingredients, Tastes, and Techniques in 100 Delicious Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Peruvian food has been climbing the culinary ladder at full speed, praised by the untrained palate of the average traveler and by food experts alike. Local Peruvian chefs are quickly gaining international celebrity status, opening restaurants in major cities around the world. Peru’s millenary staple...