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Coconuts and Collards - Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South (Hardcover)
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Coconuts and Collards - Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South (Hardcover)
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When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded
plantains, roast pork, and Malta for grits, fried chicken, and
sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards
is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South.
The stories center on the women in Diaz's family who have used food
to nourish and care for one another.Inspired by her grandmother's
1962 copy of Cocina Criolla-the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy
of Cooking-Diaz celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them
with her own family history and a contemporary southern flair.
Diaz's funche recipe is grits kicked up with coconut milk. White
beans make the catfish corn chowder creamy and give it a Spanish
feel. The pinchos de pollo-chicken skewers-feature guava BBQ sauce,
which doubles as the sauce for adobo-coated ribs. Diaz innovates
for modern palates, updating and lightening recipes and offering
vegetarian alternatives. For the chayotes rellenos (stuffed
squash), she suggests replacing the picadillo (sauteed ground beef)
with seitan or tofu. She offers alternatives for difficult-to-find
ingredients, like substituting potatoes for yucca and yautia-root
vegetables typically paired with a meat to make sancocho. Diaz's
version of this hearty stew features chicken and lean pork. And
because every good Puerto Rican meal ends with drinks, desserts,
and dancing, Diaz includes recipes for besitos de coco (coconut
kisses), rum cake, sofrito bloody marys, and anticuado, an
old-fashioned made with rum. With stunning photographs that
showcase the geographic diversity of the island and the vibrant
ingredients that make up Puerto Rican cuisine, this cookbook is a
moving story about discovering our roots through the foods that
comfort us. It is about the foods that remind us of family and help
us bridge childhood and adulthood, island and mainland, birthplace
and adopted home.
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