The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure

10 best books like The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure (Ann Vanderhoof): Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean, To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, All Over the Map, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl

AuthorChris Stewart
ISBN0956003834
If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn't...
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
AuthorCheryl Lu-Lien Tan
ISBN1401341284
"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape...
AuthorJohn Higham
ISBN1593501080
Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.

After more than a decade of planning,...
AuthorMelinda Blanchard
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and...
AuthorChuck Thompson
ISBN0805087885
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World

In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“Saturday was dawning warm, with only a gentle wind under a light blue sky as we got under way. . . . With the motor cut out, I could hear the whispered splash of the sea against the hull as we knifed through the Mediterranean. The calming noise, along with the gentle rocking, lulled me into a Zen calm as...
AuthorMary Morris
ISBN0312199414
Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood....
AuthorLaura Fraser
ISBN0307450635
What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course.

On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless...
AuthorChristina Henry De Tessan
ISBN1580050700
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0547223242
Big Audrey is a girl . . .
with cat s whiskers . . .
and sort of cat s eyes.
But, is there an other cat-whiskered, sort of cat-eyed girl?

Big Audrey waves goodbye to her friends Iggy and Neddie, Seamus, and Crazy Wig, in Los Angeles and hitches a ride with bongo-playing-while-driving...
AuthorTony Cohan
ISBN0747553653
This is one of those expatriot memoirs where an American or Brit pulls up stakes to live la bella vita--or the simpler life--in some warm clime. Think Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun or Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence, usually told oh so lyrically, eruditely, with lots of literary allusions and...
AuthorJanna Cawrse Esarey
ISBN1416589082
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.

“Somewhere fifty miles off the coast of Oregon I realize the skipper of this very...
AuthorWill Randall
ISBN0349115028
Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher, found himself dispatched to a small village on...
AuthorElizabeth Ehrlich
Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their religious practices irrelevant to her life. It wasn't until she...
Shame the Devil
AuthorDebra Brenegan
ISBN1438435878
"There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall...
AuthorVictoria Abbott Riccardi
Two years out of college and with a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Victoria Riccardi left a boyfriend, a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and a plum job in advertising to move to Kyoto to study kaiseki, the exquisitely refined form of cooking that accompanies the formal Japanese tea ceremony....
AuthorAmanda Hesser
ISBN0393046680
The unique, award-winning cookbook—a collection of seasonal recipes from a traditional French garden.

The Cook and the Gardener is Amanda Hesser's first book. From the opening lines of its introduction, her literary gifts are as evident as her passion for good food. Since this work combines...
AuthorTahir Shah
ISBN1559706775
A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to "fly like birds" over the jungle, as a Spanish monk reported....
All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, A Memoir
AuthorRoland Mesnier
This extraordinary success-story-told by the hero himself-of a young French pastry chef who climbed his way to the top, embodies the great American dream. After working at the Savoy in London, the George V in Paris, the Princess in Bermuda, and the Homestead in Virginia, Roland Mesnier took on the job...
The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love
AuthorMichelle Maisto
ISBN0812979192
“On our first date, Rich ordered a chocolate soufflé at the beginning of the meal, noting an asterisk on the menu warning diners of the wait involved. At the time, I imagined he did it partly to impress me, which it did, though today I know well that he’s simply the type of man who knows better than to...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN0307272532
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
Ripe for the Picking (Italy series, #2)
AuthorAnnie Hawes
ISBN0141008903
During the course of Annie Hawes' new book, local culinary superstar, Ciccio, gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates his affection and esteem by inviting her into his vineyard to help himmix up cow manure, which she spends the afternoon...
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
AuthorLori L. Tharps
ISBN0743296478
Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny would be discovered in Spain. She didn't know anyone...
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
AuthorLaura Schenone
ISBN0393061469
James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives as she goes. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the grit of New Jersey's industrial wastelands...
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
AuthorLaura Shapiro
ISBN0375756655
You've heard of Perfection Salad, right?



Chopped or shredded vegetables, primarily cabbage, celery, carrot, and sweet pepper, embedded in plain (later tomato) aspic.
"At the tail end of the 19th century (in the United States) the domestic science/home economics movement...
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