Jamaican Recipes Cookbook: Over 50 Most Treasured Jamaican Cuisine Cooking Recipes (Caribbean Recipes)

Thank you, thank you. I needed this cookbook since my grandmother and aunts would just make the food for me instead of showing me or writing down my favorite foods. I need to cook Jamaican dishes for my children since they are not used to eating them without a big family event. Author Karen Reynolds James includes the two rice recipes I know how to made: pigeon peas and rice (page 66) and rice and peas (page 71). However, she included pumpkin rice (page 69) which is a great treat for me to have with the family. The two recipes that I just needed to know how to make are Easter Bun (page 88) and Black Cake (page 90). Her recipes are simple and easy to read and make. The ingredients are quite easily available to get at the regular supermarket or local market. She also includes traditional drinks and the beef patty recipe. Yum! The only complaint is the pictures are in black and white and are "lacklusted." The photos could have been in color or more in focus. With that said, I like this book a lot. It is basic and still allows me to add my personality to my home cooking.

I've been looking for some new recipes to try out lately, some new dishes to learn to cook, and, as I've always been particularly find of Jamaican dishes, I thought I would give this book a try. Right off the bat, the pictures of the dishes all look amazing and delicious; you really can't wait to try all of them to see if they taste as amazing as they look, once you look through the entire book. And let me tell you: they taste even more amazing than the pictures make you think they do.This book is so well organized, the recipes so easy to follow, that I really can't think of a better book to recommend if you're looking to try your hand at some Jamaican cuisine, as these dishes all seem to turn out amazingly.Truly, this is a cookbook I will be referring to for years to come whenever I have a taste for some Jamaican, it's just that great.

This is the best Jamaican cookbook I bought thus far. This is easy to conclude because I tried others and hey were not to my liking. I love to try other styles of cooking to experience a new taste and flavor so I decided to get this book. The 12 recipes I tried already were quite similar to the better tasting Jamaican meals I tried while I was on the island on vacation. This recipe book did not disappoint. Happy I chose this Jamaican recipe book because it is well presented with easy to follow instructions. Clearly a better taste above the rest!

I bought this for my ‘adopted’ Jamaican son. He has longed to replicate recipes from his upbringing in Jamaica but needed more details to cook his favorite dishes.He loved the range of recipes as well as the authenticity and ease of instructions. We both are looking forward to some great Jamaican cooking!

This recipe book was really worth the price with easy to follow directions and easy to get ingredients here in the States. It's hard not to recommend this book since the results turned out to be so delicious and true to an authentic Jamaican taste. With over 50 recipes, it was quite a deal for me. If anyone is looking for a really good Jamaican recipe cookbook that gives the best value and taste--get this book. I simply love it!

Haven' tried all the recipes, but love ones I tried. I would recommend if you would like to learn to cook jamacian food.

For most good cookbooks, you have to fork over a bunch of cash, but this one was the exception. With a ton of recipes, most of which I will probably never use (they are still probably delicious) and simple directions, this cookbook has some pretty good recipes in it. I have many recipes that are favorites of mine and I will be using this book any time I want some Jamaican food.

As a half jamaican engaged to a full bred jamaican, I can say these recipes were spot on and authentic.What I didn't like was that it wasn't hardcover!!! That's not really the publisher or amazon"s fault (I should have looked)All in All its a good cookbook with authentic jamaican recipes for you to "yam" on.

Great recipe book with all my old favourite recipes my mum use to make when I was a littlelen, coconut drops, stew peas & rice. Yum. Plus some new recipes to. Thank you to the creator of this book, because now this will enable me to go back to my youth and make some of these recipes my mum use to make, which i didn't pay much attention to by watching her, or remember the exact ingredients she used. Thank you.The kindle version of this book the pictures are in colour. I see some of the reviews on here stating the pictures are in black & white I presume that relates to the paper version books.

Well, I ordered this book because the recipes on the cover looked so mouth-watering: But when it arrived and I began to look at the pages, my jaw dropped in disappointment. Well the illustrations were all in black and white. Take the "curried goat" recipe on page 50, I couldn't help thinking, how much it resembles a pile of rocks in my garden. What am sorry about, is that I discarded the packaging before I had a look inside, other wise I would be demanding a refund.

I have read through some of the recipes, and they are what I expected and I'm happy..... However, Cookbooks, pictures of Food should be in Colour!!!!! It's dull and boring to look at, and that is NOTwhat cook books are about.

It does have some good stuff in it, I only really bought it to see if it had patties in it, which it does. The only issue for me is that it doesn't have many pictures, and the ones it does have are in black and white

Cannot tell you how extremely disappointed I am with this purchase. The photos inside the book bare no resemblance to the photos on the cover. Come on....black & white photos of the finish dishes (how 60s/70s) really let the book down and made it appear very amateur!