The Great Exotic Fruit Book: A Handbook with Recipes [Paperback]

Norman Van Aken (Author), John Harrisson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1995

The definitive guide to exotic fruit; includes delightfully innovative recipes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This handbook of tropical and subtropical fruits includes recipes, beginning with strong color photos of fruits and descriptions of their qualities and availability in this country to fine beverages, soups, and main dishes. Access to the fruit is of course a prerequisite to using this cookbook, but any located near urban areas should find small markets provide most of the basics needed. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

JOHN HARRISSON has co-authored cookbooks with many of America’s leading chefs, including Mark Miller, Roy Yamaguchi, and Hubert Keller. He lives in Hawaii.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898156882
• ISBN-13: 978-0898156881
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,088,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exotic Fruits, May 26, 2000

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This review is from: The Great Exotic Fruit Book: A Handbook with Recipes (Paperback)

This is a beautiful book of lovely photographs and tempting recipies. Great for summer parties & cook outs. Mango and guava are my favorites & there are wonderful recipies for these in the book. Could also be used as a "Coffee Table" Book because of the attractive photography.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Encyclopedic on Exotic Fruits, July 12, 2001

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This review is from: The Great Exotic Fruit Book: A Handbook with Recipes (Paperback)

Van Aken is lauded by the likes of Emeril Lagasse as being a true pioneer in a new cuisine which fuses American-Caribbean-Pacific Rim foods into exciting new taste combos.

Significant in this cuisine is the use of tropical fruit, so Van Aken has been experimenting. Here we garner the fruits of his research on fruits, with this guide. He also prepared the colorful posters which one can obtain, deatialing the two categories of tropical and sub-tropical varieties.

This is from a series of such works put out by Ten-Speed Press, one of my personal favorite cookbook pubs. They do Trotters, et al. This is another of their fine "The Great ... series," also I enjoy their one on pears and am awaiting the one on mangoes. They go through all the types and then provide recipes, here on drinks and salsas, and desserts, etc.

Fine reference work for those of us who like to find exotic, different components to cook with. This and his wonderful cookbook "New World Cuisine" will get a workout at my kitchen.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wish there were more books like this, September 16, 2009

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Bryan K. Shastri Carpen "Boom the mangophiliac" (South Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Exotic Fruit Book: A Handbook with Recipes (Paperback)

its a pamphlet size book, part of a great series (citrus and mango also)

wish there was a larger book with preferably better pictures, even real sized pictures of smaller fruits would be ideal.