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Jamaican Cooking: 140 Roadside and Homestyle Recipes

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I am responsible for the family trips from 1961, when she was 2 yrs old to 1985 when I stopped vacationing there. I feel not only prejudiced but slightly responsible for the love affair with Jamaica and Jamaicans. Lucinda really did her homework, including cooking each and every recipe for us, her NYC friends and our Jamaican friends. In Jamaica, it is hailed as the first real expression of "roots" cooking; to me it is a special display of content, text, and photos which expresses with humble and admirable acurracy the real cuisine of that glorious country. Of course I am prejudiced,....I am her extraordinarily proud father. C. George Scal

After renting a house in Montego Bay several years ago and having a Jamaican cook we have tried to find a "True" Jamaican cook book. This is it! From the meat pies that we had downtown to the lobster curry caserole our cook made. This cook book captures the true flavors of Jamaican cooking.....

I was born and raised in Jamaica until I was 13 and learned to cook from my mother and grandmother. I gave this book as Christmas presents to a few friends who love my cooking and wanted to know how to make many of my native dishes. I found this book years ago when 1st published. After reading the receipes I knew it was the right one because it sounded much like my mother and grandmother teaching me in the kitchen years ago. I've tested a few of the recipes that I didn't learn and they tasted like I remember eating....LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT. A MUST BUY.

I haven't tried all of these recipes yet, but so far it's been great. The only downside would be that some of the ingredients are quite unfamiliar to me (chayote, for example), and I have no idea where to get a half gallon of coconut milk around here.

It is worth noting that this book has many nice fish and seafood recipes, not just a bunch of barbecued meats.

Tomorrow, cornmeal porridge for breakfast. Finally I will know what Bob Marley was singing about in No Woman No Cry.

The Roast Pork recipe in this book is to DIE for!!! I can't wait to try the others!!!

I own a whole heap of Jamaican cook books and this one is the best, most authentic.

i have been fortunate enough to sample lucindas jerk chicken years ago....if she has been true to her formula, then this is a MUST book for anyone with taste buds.......So....this book is absolutely priceless..if lucinda has been generous enough (and honest enough) to give us ALL the right proportions...(i'm sure she has....she's got a reputation to uphold.....!) then you gotta get the book, invite a few friends over, get some red stripe,...and start jerking!!!! bob romano.....

My comment is not about the book, but the price. Why the ridiculous mark up???? The list price of the book new is $15.00, but the used price is $29.00 plus????