The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking
The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz
Original publisher
M. Evans and Company
Date of publication
1973
ISBN
0785804692
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Catherine Phipps

Catherine Phipps

Food writer and author

There are many much more glamorous books on the Caribbean, but this one is like one of my oldest friends - it's travelled extensively with me and it was so well respected by everyone who looked at it that I had to buy extra copies as so many people wanted a "borrow". It's scholarly, but there is an undercurrent of dry humour running through it, and it gives a very good grounding on the food from the whole of the Caribbean, unlike most books which tend to be Jamaica, Trinidad or Barbados-centric.

 Cynthia D. Bertelsen

Cynthia D. Bertelsen

Writer and food historian

Ortiz’s book might not really be complete, but it comes close. In Haiti, I used it to enlarge my repertoire beyond that island.