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Summary: I am cooking my way through now. Love the flavors..
Review: A wonderful book if I still lived in Miami. The availability of some of the products might be limited to Florida and major metropolitan areas. I would love Carole to publish something from her early cooking classes. I rely on those recipes on a regular basis.
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Summary: A beautiful book from a true food professional.
Review: A wonderful book if I still lived in Miami. The availability of some of the products might be limited to Florida and major metropolitan areas. I would love Carole to publish something from her early cooking classes. I rely on those recipes on a regular basis.
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Summary: Delicious recipes/intriguing text give readers a taste of FL
Review: As a former Miamian now living in Virginia, reading this wonderful new book was like taking a trip to my hometown. It has many delicious recipes that seem to me to capture the true essence of tropical cuisine. Try making the Hot and Tangy Black Bean Dip for an easy (and low fat) snack that will wake up your taste buds.I prepared the Calabazas and Sweet Potato Soup for company and received raves reviews from my guests.It's really simple to make and everyone will think you worked all day cooking it.Mmmmiami also offers the reade an interesting history of the growth of So. Florida and the influence that the influx of Latin tourists, businesspeople and immigrants have had on the culture.The book's witty and clever text explains why tropical cuisine is now the hottest food trend sweeping the country.I think this wonderful book should be a staple (like black beans and rice)in the house of any serious cook. I recommend Mmmmiami highly.
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Summary: Mmmmm Mmmmm Good
Review: Reading through MMMiami is almost as much fun as actually tasting the results. This readable collection of recipes showcases the best of Miami's tropical and latin cuisine with an emphasis on using only the freshest ingredients available. Sprinkled throughout with helpful hints, historical tidbits, and fun food facts, MMMiami is filled with easy to understand recipes that are sure crowd pleasers. The techniques and tips offer time-saving shortcuts that will help not only for the recipes contained here, but for all of your daily cooking tasks. The authors succeed in sharing their knowledge and love of Florida foods to the rest of us who (until now) have only dreamt of being able to concoct a coconut flan. The chocolate-pecan torte is worth the price of the book alone.
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Summary: We wrote this book to tempt you with Miami's tropical tastes
Review: The aim of our cookbook is to expand your culinary horizons -- to teach you how to enjoy tropical ingredients like mango, plantain and papaya that are making their way into markets around the country, and how to use more familiar Miami mainstays like citrus fruit, bananas, rice, and beans in fresh and exciting ways. The recipes represent our interpretations of those ingredients, as well as standards such as Arroz Con Pollo (Chicken with Yellow Rice) and Key Lime Pie that you'd be sure to sample if you visited Miami. Along the way, we want to show you the city as we know it -- a vibrant, ever-changing place full of warmth, vitality -- and wonderful food. Carole came to South Florida from Upstate New York as a child in the 1940s, when Miami Beach was known for its New York-style Jewish delis rather than the chic South Beach night spots. She became a cooking teacher in the 1970s, when fine cuisine had a French accent, and has been a part of the movement to explore and spotlight the tropical bounty in our own backyard. Kathy came here as a journalist 20 years ago, cooking the way her Mom had taught her on the farm back in Wisconsin, and has embraced the spice of life so abundant in Miami. We have both raised families here -- sending children to schools where Haitian Flag Day is observed as well as George Washington's birthday, shopping in markets where the clerks are more likely to speak Spanish than English. Along the way, we have learned that diversity doesn't always yield harmony, and that cultural differences can be a source of friction as well as enrichment. But we've learned larger lessons, too: That the love of good food is universal, that there's no better place than the dinner table to explore and appreciate another culture, and that a good meal, lovingly prepared, breaks down barriers like nothing else. With that in mind, we invite you to join us at our table, and to partake of this extraordinary place we call home.
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Summary: I am cooking my way through now. Love the flavors..
Review: We've been cooking the pork dishes with the salsas and chutneys. Easy to do several at a time and have nice summer food without reheating the kitchen. An even better collection than I first thought.
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