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Belly Full: Exploring Caribbean Cuisine through 11 Fundamental Ingredients and Over 100 Recipes

Lesley Enston

Nov 17 - Dec 16
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A delectable exploration of Caribbean cuisine through 105 recipes based on eleven staple ingredients, featuring powerful insights into the shared history of the diaspora and gorgeous photography.

“Lesley’s recipes inspire in the ways they approach, transcend, and unify cultural boundaries on page after delicious page.”—Hawa Hassan, author of In Bibi’s Kitchen

Across the English-speaking Caribbean, “me belly full” can mean more than just a satisfied stomach, but a heart and soul that’s full too. In Belly Full, food writer of Trinidadian descent Lesley Enston brings us into the overlapping histories of the Caribbean islands through their rich cultures and cuisines.

Eleven staple ingredients—beans, calabaza, cassava, chayote, coconut, cornmeal, okra, plantains, rice, salted cod, and scotch bonnet peppers—hold echoes of familiarity from one island to the next, and their widespread use comes in part from the harrowing impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade and colonialism. As Lesley delves into how history shaped each country and territory’s cuisine, she shows us what we can learn from each island (such as Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, and Cuba) and encourages us to celebrate the delicious differences.

Belly Full provides basic knowledge on choosing, storing, and preparing these ingredients as well as a mix of traditional and creative adaptations to dishes. Recipes are mostly gluten-free and plant-based and include:

• Cornmeal: Pen Mayi from Haiti and Conkies from Barbados
• Okra: Callaloo from Trinidad and Tobago and Fungee from Antigua
• Plantains: Mofongo from Puerto Rico and Tortilla de Plátano Maduro from Cuba
• Salted Cod: Ackee and Saltfish from Jamaica and Accras de Morue from Martinique

Belly Full, with its breadth of stories, recipes, and stunning photography, will leave your stomach and heart more than satisfied.

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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

Crystal Wilkinson

Nov 16 - Dec 7
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A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky.

People are always surprised that Black people reside in the hills of Appalachia. Those not surprised that we were there, are surprised that we stayed.

Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother’s presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; there were her ancestors, too, stirring, measuring, and braising alongside her. These are her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black women who settled in Appalachia and made a life, a legacy, and a cuisine.

An expert cook, Wilkinson shares nearly forty family recipes rooted deep in the past, full of flavor—delicious favorites including Corn Pudding, Chicken and Dumplings, Granny Christine’s Jam Cake, and Praisesong Biscuits , brought to vivid life through stunning photography. Together, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts honors the mothers who came before, the land that provided for generations of her family, and the untold heritage of Black Appalachia.

As the keeper of her family’s stories and treasured dishes, Wilkinson shares her inheritance in Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. She found their stories in her apron pockets, floating inside the steam of hot mustard greens and tucked into the sweet scent of clove and cinnamon in her kitchen. Part memoir, part cookbook, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts weaves those stories together with recipes, family photos, and a lyrical imagination to present a culinary portrait of a family that has lived and worked the earth of the mountains for over a century.

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Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book

Nathan Anthony

Nov 16 - Dec 1
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Must-have slow cooker cookbook from the hugely popular healthy eating blog, Bored of Lunch, featuring over 80 fast, easy, affordable recipes for your crockpot. Nathan Anthony, the home cook with over 1.2 million social media followers, shares delicious and easy home-style recipes that can all be made in your slow cooker while you get on with your day. Calorie-counted and perfect for anyone enjoying a slimming lifestyle or following a diet program, satisfying, flavorful food has never been so easy and affordable. From pastas and risottos to curries, copycat dishes, and family favorites, this book is packed with dishes for any day of the week or occasion. Recipes With simple, foolproof methods and no fancy or hard-to-find ingredients, this is the perfect book for busy parents and families as well as meal prep for the week ahead.

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Invent Your Recipe—Italian: 80 Italian-American Recipes Made Your Way Book Cover

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Invent Your Recipe—Italian: 80 Italian-American Recipes Made Your Way

Thomas J. Papia

Nov 9 - Dec 1
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Cooking can be a lot of fun; add a little of this, change a bit of that, and before you know it, you have great tasting food. In Invent Your Recipe Italian, Thomas J. Papia introduces you to his concept: the idea that when you INVENT YOUR RECIPE, these Italian recipes simply become guidelines. The recipes offer the framework; you create the simple, great tasting food that you enjoy preparing and sharing. Start with a base recipe. Make a few changes. And invent your recipe.

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