The Pepperpot Diaries

Name: The Pepperpot Diaries
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241560211
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Stories From My Caribbean Table

By Andi Oliver

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The Pepperpot Diaries by Andi Oliver is a vibrant culinary exploration that takes readers on a journey through Caribbean flavours and stories. Combining rich personal narratives with mouth-watering recipes, the book celebrates the cultural heritage and diversity of Caribbean cuisine. Perfect for food lovers, it offers insight into traditional dishes while adding a contemporary twist.
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You might enjoy this book if you love delving into the vibrant world of Caribbean cuisine with its rich flavours and stories. Offering a heartfelt journey through personal anecdotes and recipes, it's perfect for those who appreciate a blend of culinary exploration and cultural heritage.

The Pepperpot Diaries

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The Pepperpot Diaries is Andi Oliver's deeply personal exploration of Caribbean food, showcasing both traditional and new recipes, cherished ingredients, and vibrant flavours from across the region.

The ingredients used in Caribbean cookery tell a story—a huge, swirling tale. Let Andi Oliver take you on an exploration of identity and heritage as she shows you how to create simple yet sensational dishes that will bring the unbeatable flavours of Caribbean cooking to your table.

The story of food captured in this book will take readers on a journey through the melting pot of cultural influences, history, and legacy that have uniquely shaped both handed-down and contemporary Caribbean cuisine. Through her travels in Antigua, Andi shares her deeply personal journey of reconnecting with the food she grew up eating—the flavours and ingredients that run through her heart and soul—and what the future might hold for Caribbean cookery.

This book explores who we were, who we are, and where we're going—all through the food we eat and the people we meet along the way.

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The Pepperpot Diaries by Andi Oliver is celebrated for its vibrant portrayal of Caribbean cuisine, blending authentic recipes influenced by her ancestral roots in Antigua with personal essays and diary entries. The book is praised for its engaging storytelling, which intertwines dishes such as fried dumplings, shrimp fritters, and chocolate curry goat with explorations of heritage and identity. Reviewers commend its warm, infectious style, calling it both a delightful cookbook and a cultural journey, enhanced by Oliver's charismatic personality.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241560211

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 201.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1058g

Pages: 288

Collections

Andi Oliver Biography & Memoir Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Non-Fiction Penguin Books TV & Celebrity Cook Books

About the Author

Andi Oliver is an award-winning chef and broadcaster. She is a regular face on our television screens, as the host of the Sky Arts Live Book Club, Channel 4's Beat the Chef and Food Unwrapped, and as a contributing chef and host on BBC's Saturday Kitchen. She has also been the host of the BBC's Great British Menu for seven years and has an exciting new show coming to BBC2 Andi Oliver's Fabulous Feasts, where she goes around the UK discovering local chefs, suppliers and recipes then bringing it back to the community with a legendary Andi style party. Alongside all these achievements she has been collaborating with her daughter, Miquita for many years starting with their TV show on the BBC The Caribbean with Andi and Miquita. This has now morphed into their successful warm and hilarious podcast Stirring It Up which features celebrities and chefs round a table eating and chatting all things food each week, guests include another DK Author Katie Piper.