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Trinigourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for February 2010

TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Modern Caribbean Cuisine
Description: Modern Caribbean Cuisine demonstrates the new directions into which Caribbean cooking is now moving.
For this and other Caribbean Cookbooks check out the Caribbean section of my Veni Mangé Amazon Store!

2. Corelle Hearthstone Stoneware Square 16-Piece Dinnerware Set, Service for 4
Description:
* Corelle Hearthstone Square 16-piece set, service for 4
* Includes 4 each: 11-1/2-inch dinner …

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Trinigourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for January 2010

TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Caribbean Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes
Description: Rita Springer is a culinary icon in the Caribbean. Her original “Caribbean Cookbook”, first published in 1968, is a paperback classic and continues to be widely used throughout the Caribbean.This new edition’s elegant format, with her recipes accompanied by high quality photographs for the very first time, is a fitting tribute to her lifetime’s work. Rita’s comprehensive repertorie of …

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Tridoshic Dal (recipe)

Oops! It almost slipped my mind to let you all know the wonderful dal recipe that I used with yesterday’s Dosas.
This Tridoshic dal comes from a cookbook that I’ve been using for years called The Ayurvedic Cookbook.
I’m always interested in learning about the culinary traditions and philosophies of other cultures. Eastern cuisines in particular often fixates on the concept of warming and cooling foods. Maintaining a balance of the two within a meal, or strategically stimulating or calming ones system where imbalance is detected. This approach to balance …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for September 2009

TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Baking: From My Home to Yours
Description: Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, “You write recipes just the way I do.” Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its literate curiosity and “patient but exuberant style.” (One hard-boiled critic called …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon HotList for February 2009

It’s been dormant for over a year, but now it’s back!
TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Caribbean Cookbook
Description: First published more than thirty years ago, Rita Springer’s Caribbean Cookbook is a West Indian classic.

2. Clay Pot Meyer Lemon Tree
Description: Amazon.com has this great lemon variety planted in a terra cotta clay pot ready to ship. Excellent for gift giving! Fragrant flowers produce thin skinned, juicy lemons year round. Different …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Clay Pot Meyer Lemon Tree
Description: Amazon.com has this great lemon variety planted in a terra cotta clay pot ready to ship. Excellent for gift giving! Fragrant flowers produce thin skinned, juicy lemons year round. Different than conventional lemons in that the taste is more sweeter, and less acid. Rind is thinner and more orangish in color than typical lemons. Evergreen. Full sun. Growing to about …

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Well there you go. I normally don’t post pictures of myself as I am a rather private person, however YumSugar’s “Show us your cookbooks” online event was just the thing for me to ‘momentarily’ come out of hiding
The book that I am holding up is Nava Atlas’ “Vegetarian Express : Easy, Tasty, and Healthy Menus in 28 Minutes(or Less!)“one of my oldest (and favourite) cookbook purchases. Its main selling point is that the menus can come together in under 30 minutes, and even more beautifully they don’t …

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Wowee, my Gourmet Father’s Day post helped to bring about a MAJOR shakeup in this month’s hotlist. Many old faithfuls have dropped off, and many new entries (mostly kitchen appliances and plants!). Who knew? It also looks like the popularity of my Fudgy Chocolate Brownie post has helped Rachael Ray to make her debut on the hotlist. Hehehe, it’s OK, your secrets are safe with me
As always, this list is a monthly compilation of what you all have been clicking on and buying, here on …

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Last November Richard J. Perry, the author of The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipescirculated a request to foodbloggers to review his new cookbook in exchange for a free copy. Being someone who loves cookbooks, as well as freebies, I merrily threw my hat into the ring.
When my copy arrived I was beyond psyched!
The Good Home Cookbook is a compilation of more than 1000 classic American recipes, and it goes above and beyond the call of duty! In the past I have been sorely disappointed by …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. The Sephardic Table: The Vibrant Cooking of the Mediterranean Jews
Description: A collection of 175 recipes from Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia in North Africa; from the Ottoman communities of Turkey, Rhodes, and Greece; from Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran in the Middle East.

2. Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads
Description: All the breads take less than one hour, with advice on how to make bread in advance, …