The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Part travel book, part cookbook. I normally love all things travel and all things food, but this book did NOTHING for me. I read the first 50 pages or so, then from that point just skimmed through the remainder of the book . Its one of those situations where your travel stories seem so much more interesting to you than to everyone else... The author's adventures were, I'm sure fascinating to HER but to me it read like molasses...it was like viewing hours of someone else's vacation photos lol. I didn't even care for the recipes..and I love to cook all sorts of food from many cultures, inculding carribean. Honestly, I cannot think of one person I would recommend this book to. Thankful I got it from the library and didn't purchase it. What a GREAT summer on your hammock read! I loved how this is a travelogue/memoir/cookbook written about a Canadian couple's adventure sailing, hiking through the Caribbean, meeting the natives, eating and cooking their food...added BONUS. The food actually was a conversation starter and helped them form great bonds with the people of the land. I totally dug that. After cruising through the book and seeing the recipes at the end of each chapter, I found myself wanting to make an attempt at trying to cook, too! In fact, the lemon bar recipe is similar to my Irish mother's and mine is not too shabby either. I always LOVE it when a book takes me away to a place I've never been and stimulates all of my senses with a smile. This book achieves that and now I need to have an American mid life crisis and sail to the Caribbean! First I need a boat! ;)
What do You think about The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure (2010)?
Excellent book as good as her first...An Embarrassment of Mangoes. Makes me yearn for a life at sea!
—HeavenEastwood
loved it, tho it made me hungry a lot!! warning: do not read this if your on a strict diet lol!!
—TEE
