TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for May 2007!

Filed Under thoughts, reviews, cookbooks | Posted on May 5, 2007

Well here it is again. My Top 10 recommendations based on -your- clicks and purchases at TriniGourmet.com over the past month.

Wowee! This month’s ranking was quite a shocker. Firstly, Wendy Rahamut’s ‘Modern Caribbean Cuisine‘ which had been the #1 item for the last 4 months has now dropped to #10. Oh my, has my poll created a jinx? Well, considering I posted my poll in the last week of April I can rest easily that it didn’t. The fall of ‘Modern Caribbean Cuisine’ created a vacancy in the #1 spot that was happily filled by Ramin Ganeshram’s wonderful Sweet Hands: Island Cooking From Trinidad And Tobago.

Rising to #2 is Richard Bertinet’s Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads. This book won many awards in 2006, including a prestigious James Beard so I’m happy to see it go up the ‘chart’ :)

Highest entry this time around is an old-timer that pops on and off the HotList with surprising regularity. I’m talking about Rita Springer’s Caribbean Cookbook. I really like this cookbook, but it drives my mother up a wall :lol: I hope you’ll keep it around for a second month in a row, what can I say? :)

Making their Hotlist debut are two cookbooks that I recommended last month, Cooking with Three Ingredients: Flavorful Food, Easy as 1, 2, 3 (read my review here) and Homemade: Delicious Foods to Make and Give (read my review here). I’m glad to see that you’ve checked them out :) I really love them and I’m sure you will too.

*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

Sweet Hands: Island Cooking From Trinidad And Tobago1. Sweet Hands: Island Cooking From Trinidad And Tobago (Hippocrene Cookbook Library (Hardcover))

Description: Callalloo and Buss Up Shut, Mother-in-Law And Kuchela, Chip Chip and Doubles. The verbiage of Trinidad?��Ǩ�Ѣs cuisine is both lyrical and mysterious. The variety of foods from this Caribbean nation and their fanciful names tell the story of a rich and eclectic cultural heritage.

Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads2. Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads

Description: All the breads take less than one hour, with advice on how to make bread in advance, use the freezer and above all, comes the knowledge from a master-baker of how to make the perfect dough

Caribbean Cookbook3. Caribbean Cookbook

Description: First published more than thirty years ago, Rita Springer?��Ǩ�Ѣs Caribbean Cookbook is a West Indian classic.

The Sephardic Table: The Vibrant Cooking of the Mediterranean Jews4. 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.
Island Cooking: Recipes from the Caribbean5. Island Cooking: Recipes from the Caribbean

Description: Home cooking from the Caribbean

The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes6. The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes

Description: With more than 1,000 no-nonsense recipes, The Good Home Cookbook reminds us that a good home cooked meal is as special as the company who enjoys it. In a highly ambitious effort, Richard J. Perry led his editorial team to identify recipes that formed the foundation of American cuisine as we know it today. Then, hundreds of home cooks from all 50 states tested and cross-tested the recipes in the first-ever public recipe tested cookbook.

7. Cooking with Three Ingredients: Flavorful Food, Easy as 1, 2, 3

Description: There’s magic in the number three. And when it comes to cooking, the number three can create culinary magic in your kitchen. In this fabulous, original collection, three ingredients add up to much more than the sum of their parts.
Choose a simple starter, such as Smoked Salmon Mousse, Very Cheesy Nachos, Mustard-Cured Shrimp, or Chunky Corn Chowder, or go for the main event with Lemon Pepper Chicken, Balsamic-Glazed Sirloin, or Grilled Honey Mustard Pork. There are three-ingredient pasta sauces, delectable vegetables and sides, and even “almost instant” desserts

8. Homemade: Delicious Foods to Make and Give

Description: Homemade is much more than a collection of recipes. Since a big part of every gift?��Ǩ�Ѣs appeal is its presentation, author Judith Choate includes plenty of ideas and tips on how to wrap, pack, and ship food gifts with creativity and style. You?��Ǩ�Ѣll learn how to cleverly combine food gifts into the perfect package, how to decorate jar tops, where to find beautiful bottles for condiments and flavored oils, and more.

Caribbean Flavours9. Caribbean Flavours

Description: Wendy Rahamut is a Trinidadian TV Chef, and this is a marvellous collection of recipes giving the wonderful taste of Caribbean Flavor

Modern Caribbean Cuisine10. Modern Caribbean Cuisine

Description: Modern Caribbean Cuisine demonstrates the new directions into which Caribbean cooking is now moving.

Highest New Entry:

?��Ǩ�� Caribbean Cookbook

Falling off the Top 10:

?��Ǩ�� The Real Taste of Jamaica, Rev. Ed.
?��Ǩ�� Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East & North Africa



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