For more than two decades, customers have lined up outside the doors of west coast chef Isabel Cruzs three popular restaurants. Cruz, who is known for her innovative and healthy twist on traditional Latin fare, balances her ingredients to cook the delicious food that she, her family, and her restaurant patrons love. This book is full of simple, easy-to-make recipes with the Latin flavors youll love producing in your own kitchen.

Val Navarro's first mistake: going out dancing after a bad breakup when the chef should be focused on her family business. Her second mistake? Thinking the handsome, sensitive stranger she meets could be more than a rebound--until she discovers he's Philip Wagner of Wagner Developments. His father's company could shut down her Puerto Rican restaurant and unravel her tight-knit neighborhood. When Philip takes over negotiations, Val wants to believe...

Introduces Puerto Rican cuisine and gathers recipes for appetizers, fritters, sauces, soups, salads, vegetables, plantains, fish, shellfish, poultry, meat, rice, beans, pasta, breads, and desserts.

"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. Inspired by her grandmother's 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla--the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking--Coconuts and Collards celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with...

"Rightfully the author dedicates this book to "Isabel", the native of St. Kitts who always called herself proudly "A British Object". She was an inspired cook, and many of the delicious dishes and thirst-quenching drinks that appears in this volume are of her concoction. All of them were perfected through the years by Mrs. Dooley from Isabel's explanation of a "pich of dis and a lump of dat." Other recipes in the book are prized cookery secrets of...

"My Life on a Plate" tells Kelis' personal story through the food she creates. Her style has been molded by her culture, her travels, and all the people she met along the way. This book is a collection of her favorite recipes. It features a mix of foods from her Puerto Rican heritage, such as Pernil (Puerto Rican Pork Shoulder), Arroz con Gandules, and Shrimp Alcapurias along with dishes she created after discovering them on her travels around the...