Title | Author | Content Sample
- Item# CODC-SPRB
- ISBN13: 978-1-59434-219-6
- Copyright 2010
- 324 pp.
- Form: Spiral bound, Trade paperback (US)
- Price: $21.95
Coconut Delights Cookbook
A Collection of Coconut Recipes
By Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Ancient tropical cultures have relied on the coconut as a source of food, material for clothing and housing, and as a source of drink. You will fall in love with the recipes designed around this tasty and useful fruit.
Delicious coconuts are versatile, nutritious, and always add a special flair to many dishes, whether used in cakes, pies and breads, in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any number of other imaginative ways. In Coconut Delights Cookbook, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents her collection of more than 250 exciting coconut recipes that will be sure to please everyone! Inside, you will also find some fascinating reading regarding this tropical fruit's history, folklore, cultivation, and much more. With recipes using readily available ingredients, Coconut Delights Cookbook will be a valued addition to any chef's bookshelf.
Inside You Will Find:
- Delicious Coconut Recipes
- Facts about the Coconut
- Types of Coconut
- Measurement Conversion Chart
- Fascinating Coconut Folklore
- Coconut-Themed Poetry
- Nutritional Information
- Helpful Index and Glossary
- Coconut Cultivation
This is the spiral-bound edition of this title.
What People are Saying
"Coconut Delights is not only a cookbook, but a wealth of information about coconut. It includes fascinating facts, folklore, history of coconut, health and nutrition, types of coconut, and even coconut-themed poetry.
In addition to all this information it has a collection of over 260 recipes that are delicious, and will be enjoyed by your family and friends.
This is a great value for the price and makes a wonderful gift."
Dr. James G. Hood
Editor
"One of the most versatile foods in the world now has a book devoted to revealing its entire splendor. The Coconut Delights Cookbook is brimming with hundreds of recipes, facts, and folklore regarding one of the world's most useful natural provisions.
Author Karen Jean Matsko Hood, combines complete information on the best ways to prepare coconut meat, milk, and oil. Recipes range from soups and salads to appetizers, entrιes, beverages, and desserts. Hood tops it all off with a dash of poetry to present a creative cookbook that is most satisfying.
Coconut Delights Cookbook has INSTANTLY become one of my favorites!"
Kimberly Carter
Publicist
"Coconut Delights Cookbook has fascinating tidbits that will delight and entertain your family. With witty and factual information about coconut, as well as more than 260 wonderful tasty recipes, this cookbook promises to delight the palate and tantalize the taste buds. Also included is an enormous variety of scrumptious coconut recipes that promise to deliver a unique experience.
The history and poetry that is included will intrigue and enchant the senses while enjoying the prose."
Mary Scripture-Smith
Graphic Designer
"Tropical cultures have relied on the coconut as a source of food, material for clothing and housing, and as a source of drink for many, many years.
Now Coconut Delights Cookbook can do the same for your kitchen. You will truly be inspired by the wealth of information, poetry, and more than 260 recipes that you will find in this cookbook.
Get this book and have fun inspiring others with your new found delicacies."
Ed Archambeault
Spokane, WA