Customer Reviews

La Cocina Dominicana

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I have gone to DR numerous times and I love the food so very much. Since I can't always be there to satisfy my cravings, I decided to bring the food home to us! Husband hasn't eaten dominican bread pudding in years. I made the bread pudding for him and he loved it and complimented me like I have never seen before! Lucky me I can read spanish...may not be 100% acurate (my spanish that is) but the results was just superb after making the bread pudding! I am soooo happy to have this book. Now I can really enjoy some good food. Lot of the recipes are so familiar when my mother n law cooked for us. Now I can make them and enjoy them with my family!

I was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to the States when I was 10 years old. I treasured going back on my summer vacations and eating the incredible food of the D.R.

I am now 27, and have desperately tried for years to find the traditional recepies of REAL DOMINICAN COOKING, but have always come to a halt, until I came accross this AMAZING COOKBOOK.

The recipes are so easy to follow and the results are incredible. I would personlly like to thank the author for providing the " DOMINICANOS AUSENTES" the ability to feel a little closer to home with these wonderful recipes.

"Gracias por crear estas recetas tan deliciosas, y darnos a todos un poquito de ese calor dominicano dentro de nueatras comidas !!!!!!!!"

I own the English version of this book, and just received the Spanish version of this cookbook as a gift. I congratulate the author for the in-depth look at Dominican foods and its origins. Yes, this book is a cookbook and a cultural book! Dominicans will really apprciate this point. The book has a glossary of Dominican terms and foods and it also provides me with menus on what foods to combine. I always amaze my friends with the great recipies within this book. It is simple to read and I really enjoy having my home cooking wherever I go. I highly recommend this book!!

Being a Dominican away from my country, my mother found this book and gave it to her three children going to school in the states. To my surprise, the flavors and the different recipes where almost the exact same recipes at home. I think the author did an excellent job in contacting the best chefs in the island to get a concensus of what Dominicans truly eat. My experience with cookbooks is that they rarely get as many recipes as this book done right.

Cuanto te adoro Republica Dominicana! Bello libro de recetas de platos verdaderamente buenisimos! Great cookbook for native Dominicans, all Latinos and anybody that wants to have a taste of a traditional Dominican plate is all about!!! YUMMY! :)

I am overall satisfied with the book. With a minor in spanish, I still have a hard time translating some of the words. Also, the cuts of meat that is mentioned in the book are not familiar to me. I will have to do some research I suppose. Overall, I got a collectors edition of the book which was new and still in the plastic, from the early 90s. I love latin american cuisine and will continue to add to my collection!

You won't regret buying this cookbook. All the recipes are in Spanish; therefore, you must know how to read the language. The recipes brought me back to when I was a little girl eating my mom's delicious dominican meals. If you are looking for authentic dominican dishes, this cookbook is a must have.

This is an excellent book on Dominican cooking, unfortunately if you don't speak spanish the english version it too expensive. Take a few spanish lessons and get this book if you like authentic latin american cuisine.

It is a pity that, among the annual Nobel Prize awards, the arduous field-work of gastronomic literature in not taken under consideration because it tries to incorporate the recipe's criteria with multiple variables, especially when it is related to the typical cooking of an area, or country, such as the Dominican Republic, a small Caribbean island that has as many culinary versions as the many provinces into which it is divided. And I regret this absence because I would like to have seen among the Nobel Prize's candidates this book of María Ramírez de Carías, who, because of her diligence and researching conditions, as well as her knowledge of the culinary art, has been able to penetrate the most authentic recipes of the almost unknown Dominican gastronomy, so rich in condiments and influences.

I have always thought that the serious study of the diverse quality of Dominican cooking is a worthy task, starting out by rescuing so many typical recipes, desserts, beverages, and drinks, that a busy modern life has been leaving obsolete.

This book completely fulfills that task. That is why I consider it worthy of the highest recognition given in the Dominican Republic, the Gastronomic Merit Medal, an annual prize given during the Dominican Gastronomic Festival.

Simón Romero Activities Director Dominican Republic's Tourism Office

I agree with the other reviewer that it was not user friendly. I made two of the recipes and they both came out horrible. I consider this book more a "cultural snapshot" than an actual cookbook.