Recipes from LA Isla: New & Traditional Puerto Rican Cuisine

Rosado, Robert; Rosado, Judith Healey

ISBN 10: 1565654765 / ISBN 13: 9781565654761

Published by Lowell House, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recipes from LA Isla: New & Traditional Puerto Rican Cuisine
• Publisher: Lowell House
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565654765
• ISBN 13: 9781565654761
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

Gathers Puerto Rican-style recipes for appetizers, salads, soups, rice, beans, vegetables, meat, chicken, seafood, sauces, desserts, and beverages

From Publishers Weekly

Striking the perfect balance between reminiscence, history and instruction, and chock-full of unique recipes, this charming book may help to usher Puerto Rican cookery into mainstream acceptance. The Rosados rethink the island's tasty deep-fried finger foods so that favorites like Alcapurrias-stuffed dumplings made with a cassava batter-and the turnovers known as Pastelillos are equally tempting in their baked versions. The chapter on salads includes the Basic Avocado Salad and the less frequently found Octopus Salad; rice dishes include Rice with Codfish, with a note to the effect that it has become somewhat controversial because of its association with poverty. The outstanding chapter "Tubers & Vine-Grown Vegetables" introduces new preparations for familiar vegetables (Tamarind and Rum Glazed Batatas-the latter are sweet potatoes) as well as tubers such as the yautia, a member of the taro root family, that are less familiar in the continental U.S. While the first-person narrative, which switches back and forth between authors, is sometimes confusing, the Rosados have produced vibrant results with their debut effort.
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