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Gulf Coast Cooking: Seafood from the Florida Keys to the Yucatan Peninsula

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A beautiful book filled with mouth-watering recipes and gorgeous photographs. One which will be treasured in your library for years to come.

Gulf Coast Cooking is one of the five best Florida/Gulf Coast cookbooks out there. Well, that's my opinion. I've been updating my Amazon "So You'd Like to Guides" and I have one on Key Lime Pie. Take a look at it if you want. Anyway, I've included fifty cookbooks (the maximum Amazon will allow) in all my guides, so I've had a chance to go through my collection. And quite a collection it is, I've got hundreds of cookbooks and I go through them all the time. That's my problem, how to organize them. While going through what I wanted to include in my guides, I started separating them into piles, the ones I couldn't live without and the ones, if I absolutely had to, I could give away as gifts, you know, like if we moved into a very small place.

Gulf Coast Cooking is one I could never part with. I love the food and the atmosphere of Florida and the Gulf Coast, have spent a lot of time there, as I'm a sailing lady. I'm also somewhat of a gourmet chef. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, or galley, depending if I'm at home in the States or on our boat in the Caribbean. The recipes here will make your family, or even just yourself, if you live alone, drool. They are mouthwatering good and that's the truth.

This is a wonderful cookbook. You learn about the regions and it's cooking. It makes for good reading and some really good meals. I could live the rest of my life eating the dishes in this cookbook and not get tired of them.
The price was great;I had looked for this book in the book store and finally found it at amazon.

I love to cook seafood and southern recipes and this is an incredible version for that. HOWEVER - the photos are equally wonderful and make this cook book an incredible coffee table piece, a brilliant gift and a keepsake. I purchased several after the BP oil spill to remember the Gulf the way it was - the recipients were delighted and love the recipes as well. You won't be disappointed! Authentic cooking from down south!

I gave this cookbook to my mother as a gift shortly after it was published. Initially I thought it was just a beautiful coffee table book- the pictures are that good, but the recipes are even better. Over the years it has been borrowed by friends and family members constantly. Some of the recipes have even made their way to our favorite restaurants! A few of the recipes are time-consuming, but well worth the effort. One of my personal favorites is the last chapter on fish basics, rubs, sauces, and dressings. If there is one negative, the recipes are not categorized by main ingredients (like shrimp recipes), but by regions. Except that is the forte of this book, to highlight how different areas influence taste and flavor. If you're looking for a gift for that special someone who enjoys seafood and cooking, you just found it- period. It will be a instant treasure in their collection of cookbooks. Maybe there is one more negative, I can't seem to buy enough of them!

I was standing in line to buy shrimp in Port Aransas and asked the lady next to me what she was going to make. She picked up a copy of Gulf Coast Cooking: Seafood from the Florida Keys to the Yucatan Peninsula that they had in the store and showed me a recipe for Shrimp with a green pepper sauce. I bought the cookbook on Amazon and have tried a new recipe every weekend since. This is the best seafood cookbook ever. Lots of different ways to cook shrimp and fish, sides, and many sauces. I can make something different every week and never get tired of seafood and we are eating something that is actually good for you. Well, unless you make some of the desserts like frozen key lime pie(really good), but gotta splurge sometimes.