A follow-up to the national bestseller An Embarrassment of Mangoes, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband navigate the Caribbean on a sailboat, discovering local culture in each tiny port, and collecting sumptuous original recipes along the way.
Spices and herbs are the heart and soul of Caribbean cooking, adding more to the pleasures of the table here than perhaps anywhere else. In The Spice Necklace, award-winning food and travel writer Ann Vanderhoof embarks on a voyage of culinary discovery, as she follows her nose (and her tastebuds) into tiny kitchens and fragrant markets, through rainforest gardens and to family cookups on the beach, linking each food to its traditions, folklore and history.
Meandering from island to island by sailboat, Vanderhoof takes readers along as she gathers nutmeg in Grenada, hunts crabs and freshwater crayfish in the mountains of Dominica, and obsesses about oregano-eating goats in the Dominican Republic. Along the way, she is befriended by a collection of unforgettable island characters who share with her their own delicious recipes, making this truly a book to savour.
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ANN VANDERHOOF's debut book, An Embarrassment of Mangoes-an account of a two-year midlife break during which she sailed from Canada to the Caribbean-was an Amazon Top Ten Book of the Year for Travel and a national bestseller in Canada. She is the author of The Spice Necklace and writes for magazines such as Gourmet, Islands, and More. When she's not on her sailboat, Vanderhoof lives in Toronto.
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Preface
The Spell of the Spice Necklace
1 The Nutmeg Gatherers
Grenada
2 Self-Spicing Goats
The Dominican Republic
3 The Egg Ladies
The Dominican Republic & Haiti
4 The 151-Proof Spice
St. Martin & Saba
5 Bay in the Mountains, Crabs in the Pot
Dominica & St. Kitts
6 The Food Critics Visit the Easy-Bake Boat
Grenada
7 Rolling Rice and Drinking Jack Iron Rum
Carriacou & Petite Martinique
8 Curry Tabanca
Trinidad
9 Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot
Trinidad
10 Cramming for a Chocolate-Tasting Test
Trinidad, Tobago & Grenada
11 Snow on the Mountains, Christmas on the Way
Grenada, Trinidad, Carriacou & The Grenadines
12 All Ah We Is One
Trinidad
13 In Search of Passion
Grenada & St. Lucia
14 Barks That Bite
St. Lucia & Trinidad
15 Dog Sauce and Rhum
St. Martin, Martinique & Marie-Galante
16 The Torments of Love
Guadeloupe & The Islands of the Saints
17 Lunch with Moses
Grenada & Dominica
18 Back to the Isle of Spice
Grenada
Afterword
Acknowledgments