Customer Reviews

Puerto Rican Dishes (Cookbook)

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A young man from that delightful island works at the local market, and sometimes delivers groceries to our home. He often eulogizes the young ladies of his homeland quite salaciously, particularly one Miss "Jay Lowe" (an odd name for a woman, but he seems to be quite smitten). As Christmas approached I spied this book's title in a long list of closed-out items in a catalog and ordered it for Manuel, hoping to ease his homesickness with a visual panegyric to San Juan womanhood. However it turns out that this is a cookbook, as any less prurient reader would have immediately gleaned from its title. So I instead made it a gift to Mrs. Higgensworth, née Ramirez, who can hold more than just a candle to any number of Jay Lowe's in or out of the kitchen. We have dined on delectable series of Puerto Rican entrees throughout the subsequent weeks - a marked improvement on the Panamanian specialties that Mrs. Higgensworth mastered in the kitchens of her youth. A masterful chapter on Puerto Rican desserts will be particularly debilitating to the waistline of any gentleman lucky enough to have a Latina vixen attending to his oven. Andelé!

While the recipes look delish, and the cookbook is full of pretties, the new paperback layout for this book does not make this book kitchen friendly. The book is small in size, with an inflexible spine, making it difficult to keep the book open to read the recipes. I'm seriously thinking of returning this book and buying an older copy, perhaps a hardback version, as I can not see how I could use this book to cook with unless I typed out individual recipes for kitchen use.

Overall, the information looks good but the book layout is very poor.

Do not recommend for these reasons.

the directions with the recipes could have been written out with a little more detail.
a little to general in the execution of the dishes.
i'm also not happy with the graphic overhaul of the book.
i suppose someone wanted to impart some sort of comtemporary aesthetic appeal to the book but i rather prefer the layout of the previous editions of this book.
still all in all the book should have a place on the cookbook shelf of anyone who is seriously interested in traditional Puerto Rican cuisine.

good if you are familar with the receipts and have are handy around the kitchen