Someone who read my review of Creole - the excellent cookbook by Babette de Rozières - asked whether I’d read any more interesting books about Caribbean cuisine.
As it happens, I’ve been checking out a range of books about Caribbean cuisine that I reviewed for the latest issue of Caribbean Beat magazine.
Some of them are pure cookbooks, while the others are books about Caribbean food culture. Here’s an excerpt from that column.
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Sweden-based Jamaican cook John Bull from the Back A Yard Restaurant in Stockholm is a natural star isn’t he? Check out his video above, as he cooks saltfish fritters, a real Caribbean food classic.
I really enjoyed looking at John Bull cook, because it’s like being in the kitchen with an old friend. He’s got a few other recipes including Curry Goat and Ackee and Saltfish, you can see them here.

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Last week two brilliant American women provided me with much needed inspiration. Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva better known as The Kitchen Sisters came to London to speak about their award-winning radio series Hidden Kitchens and their other radio projects.
Hidden Kitchens is primarily broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR) in the US and explores the world of secret, unexpected, below the radar cooking across America - how communities come together through food.
The series gave rise to their first book, Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters. The book is ‘unputdownable’ so it’s no wonder it was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005 and got nominated for a James Beard Award for Best Writing on Food.
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