Puerto Rican Cookery by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Puerto Rican Cookery
Book Review: Best Puerto Rican Food! Rated by; PuertoRicanDelights_com
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love this book and recommend to All Boricuas!Book Review: ¡Este libro de cocinar es un clásico!
Summary: 5 Stars
I myself am not puertorriqueña but I love this cookbook! It was given as a gift to me by my ex-novio (who is puertorriqueño) over 10 years ago. Even though we never got married I still love to make piñón, pollo en fricasé and asopao de gandules. If you are a gringa like me you can make these dishes too but make sure you have plenty of time and love to put into them.Book Review: EXCELLET--10 STARS
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE--PUERTO RICAN OR NOT. THE RECIPES IN THIS BOOK ADD SO MUCH FLAVOR TO CHICKEN, BEEF AND PORK. THE BEEF STEAK RECIPE TURNED OUT GREAT WHEN I MADE IT, THE SEASONING WAS PERFECT. I'M SURE ONCE I MAKE IT AGAIN I WILL LEARN TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER IT. THE PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE WAS GREAT AS WELL. I LOVE THIS BOOK, I HAVE USED IT ALMOST EVERY NIGHT FOR DINNER SINCE I RECEIVED IT. YOU DO HAVE TO BE FAMILIAR WITH SOME SIMPLE COOKING SKILLS, BUT THIS BOOK WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. IF YOU ENJOY COOKING AS MUCH AS I DO YOU WILL LOVE THIS COOKBOOK.Book Review: The Classic on Puerto Rican Food!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the book you will need to cook true Puerto Rican!!! Everyone either has this or the Spanish version, "Cocina Criolla." However, that said, you may want to update the amount of salt and fat. I for one don't eat pork... which is a staple in the Puerto Rican diet, however noone has ever complained about my use of olive oil.There are so many great recipes... arroz con gandules, arroz con pollo, tembleque, mojo isleño, tostones... it's all here!
Book Review: Translation of The Definitive Puerto Rican Cookbook!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm Puerto Rican-American. My Puerto Rican parents raised me in New Jersey on traditional Puerto Rican food: arroz con pollo (rice with chicken cooked inside), pastales (Puerto Rican tamales), relleno de papas (meat-filled potato dumplings), alcapurias (meat-filled hot-dog shaped fritters), pernil (pork roasted in the oven, as opposed to "lechon" which is pork roasted over fire), arroz con gandules (rice with beans -- one of several kinds of delicious beans), tostones y yuevos (fried plantan -- sweet soft yellow or salty firm -- with eggs), mofongo (a garlic-filled tostones ball mashed into a ball of delectable flavor), etc. Like a reader who posted here previously, I felt sad (and happy) when I first ate a dish prepared by my Taiwanese wife (a wonderful home chef) who followed the recipes in Puerto Rican Cookery, a translation of Cocina Criolla, the most popular and traditional cookbook in Puerto Rico. When we visited my parents, who retired in Puerto Rico two weeks ago (Thanksgiving 2003), we were pleased to see both Puerto Rican Cookery and it's original Cocina Criolla selling all over the island: all bookstores, tourists shops, the great fortresses of the island -- San Cristobal and El Morro, etc. Simply put, this book is 'THE DEFINITIVE PUERTO RICAN COOKBOOK -- acknowledged as the preeminent guide to Puerto Rican cuisine in Puerto Rico itself. There are other good books sold in Puerto Rico, but even in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Cookery (Cocina Criolla) is the unquestioned number one. My wife used it to make several dishes, and although I would not admit this to my mother, my Taiwanese wife out-Puerto Ricaned my mother at the kitchen stove. Buy this wonderful book with "tus ojos cerrados" ("with your eyes closed"). That's a Puerto Rican/Spanish idiom meaning that even a blind man or woman wouldn't go wrong in selecting this wonderful book. It was written by a Puerto Rican matriarch of a great Puerto Rican family, who was banished from the kitchen by her aristocratic Puerto Rican family. (She is a relative of the 1950 oscar-winning Puerto Rican actor, Jose Ferrer -- who won for his English-accented CIRENO DE BERGEAC) Her revenge, marry a man who loved to cook and embark on a life-long pursuit of anthologizing the island's best traditional dishes. The book is 10000% traditional. "Te lo prometo!" (I promise you!) If you buy one Puerto Rican cookbook, buy the original Spanish "Cocina Criolla" or this 10000% faithful translation, Puerto-Rican Cookery. The instructions are step-by-step. You'll learn many recipes for Puerto-Rico's secret spice -- sofrito! :)