A collection of both contemporary and traditional recipes, with focused attention on food products readily available in Nigeria, whole food stores and african stores all over the world.
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Funke James, born december 18,1972 has Nigerian-American roots. Graduated from Herbert Lehman college in the Bronx, and made a lot of friends from different backgrounds. As a child who grew up in a culture surrounded by different styles of cooking. Able to use ingredients found in your neighbourhood food store to create an exotic Nigerian meal. When Funke James moved to New York City in her early teens, she began to be more aware of the very many immigrants like her who moved to a foreign country, and at a point almost forgot her culture to pick up another. Funke James shows love to people of every culture and background through meal sharing. This book is written as a token of love for the sons and daughters of Nigeria abroad, the very many people that love a Nigerian and our friends all over the world. Funke James, married to Abraham James, now lives in Houston with their 4 children
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This review is from: The Essential Nigerian Cookbook (Paperback)
If you want pretty pictures of Nigerian classics, or to be able to put a name to that dish you were served at that party, then this is the cookbook for you.
However, MOST of the recipes are flawed. Some are entirely useless. The "egusi soup recipe" does not list "egusi" anywhere in the ingredient list and does not say how much to add. The "beju coconut and cassava biscuits recipe" does not list ingredients at all. The recipe for "jollof rice" calls for 1- 16 ounce can Tomato paste, but begins with "1. Wash tomatoes..." The "chin-chin" has baking POWDER in the ingredient list, but baking SODA in the method. And so on, and so forth... Other recipes are just vague. The method for "yam porridge" doesn't tell when to add the yam. The "suya" recipe doesn't give a clue as to how many roasted peanuts to add to the mix. And so on, and so forth... On the one hand, I wasted my money. On the other hand, I will be able to use this book to teach my students how disappointing a poorly edited publication can be.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The most over priced flat cook book ever!,
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I am short of words at how i feel about this book, i just feel i have wasted my money for a book that has got nothing in it! Fake recipes that are not well described! How can anyone write a book this cheap and sell it at apprx. $17! This is the worst book i ever bought on Amazon and if i had the time, i would have returned this item! Please for anyone who wants to purchase a book on west african cooking(Nigeria), the 'my cooking west African cookbook' is just perfect and has a lot of recipes and goes for only $12. You wont imagine the huge box this flatbook came in...soooo annoying!
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