Caribbean Modern: Recipes from the Rum Islands

Shivi Ramoutar

$35.00

Publication Date: July 28th, 2015

Publisher:

Headline

ISBN:

9781472223265

Pages:

256

Description

When you think of the Caribbean, a hundred beautiful clichés come to mind - white sand, blue sky, salty breezes and balmy nights. But what of the food? Eating is at the heart of Caribbean life: people come together in the kitchen, someone starts cooking and soon there is laughter, music and fantastic food.

Shivi Ramoutar grew up in Trinidad, Leicester and London. As a supperclub host and pop-up chef, Shivi turned to her favourite Caribbean dishes for inspiration. Her recipes are a wonderful melting pot of flavours: traditional Coconut Chicken Rundown sits alongside Red Bean and Spinach Mac 'n' Cheese and Baked Eggs Creole. Her food is fresh and zingy, exciting and exotic, but also satisfyingly homely and hearty. And not forgetting the fun -
Salted Tamarind Caramel Sundae, Smashed Banana Pancakes and Peanut Butter and Jelly Cheesecake - without which the book just wouldn't be Caribbean.

About the Author

The Guardian has dubbed Shivi the 'Caribbean Food Supremo' and Shivi continues to host her own events, including her *Lime supperclub in London as well as for Jamie Oliver's Food Foundation, plus pop-ups at Feast Food Festival and a takeover at Le Coq.

Shivi also teaches Caribbean cookery classes at Divertimenti and her recipes have already been featured in the Guardian, The Sunday Times, Delicious, Good Things magazine and Metro.

Shivi was also a contestant on Masterchef in 2013.

Praise for Caribbean Modern: Recipes from the Rum Islands

Shivi's food is bright, colourful and hugely evocative
of the deliciously spiced 'Caribbean' food that I have
grown to love whenever I visit that part of the world.
I want to eat everything in this book.

—Thomasina Miers

It's here! It's here! Shivi Ramoutar's AMAZING debut book.—Sabrina Ghayour

Shivi specialises in light, modern recipes that showcases the most vibrant ingredients from the area and her new book, Caribbean Modern, celebrates this type of cooking, while remaining true to the hospitable Caribbean spirit.—Telegraph Food

Caribbean Modern should convince any doubters that there is far more to the cooking of the rum islands than jerk chicken and mutton curry.—House & Garden

If you've got the music, the flipflops, the shades and the sunny disposition, all you need is a spread of something special and you'll be "liming". Liming, as Trinidadian supperclub host Shivi Ramoutar puts it, is the specifically Trinidadian art of doing nothing, accompanied by bountiful food and drink. Ramoutar's recent debut cookbook, Caribbean Modern (Headline), is brimming with recipes that can make that happen: buttermilk fried chicken, jerk pulled pork and watermelon salad, crab backs and fried bakes, all bold flavours and bright colours to bring the islands to your picnic rug.—Guardian Cook