Florida Keys Cookbook

The Florida Keys Cookbook is known for its fascinating combination of food history, local lore, and over 175 mouth-watering recipes showcasing the Florida Keys' bounty from Keys restaurant chefs, and home cooks. Archival photographs and informative sidebars elevated the second edition of this beautiful and treasured book that is a celebration of the paradise that is the Florida Keys. Now in its third edition, Victoria Shearer’s successful cookbook is being taken to the next level with over 60 new recipes and even more archival photos. A perfect guide for home cooks of all levels of cooking, Florida Keys Cookbook invites readers to experience the culinary excellence and cultural wonder that embodies the Florida Keys. New recipes include: Peanut-Crusted Yellowtail with Piña Colada Sauce Iced Tomato-Melon Soup Piña Colada Rum Cake Coconut-Almond Carrot Soup Shrimp and Brie Penne Citrus-Splashed Spinach Salad Conch Fusion Cut-Up Baby Asparagus with Orange-Chive-Mustard Sauce Caribbean Shrimp Wraps Pots de Chocolat Crème à L’Orange Sesame Seared Yellowfin Tuna with Ponzu Sauce

The Florida Keys Cookbook is a fascinating combination of food history, local lore, and over 175 mouth-watering recipes showcasing the Florida Keys' bounty from Keys restaurant chefs and home cooks. Archival photographs and informative sidebars round out the newly designed full color second edition of this beautiful and treasured book that is a celebration of the paradise that is the Florida Keys.

From Margaritas to Tropical Coffee Cake to Snapper Rangoon—more than 200 Florida Keys culinary delights from the James Beard Award winner. The sun-drenched Florida Keys are a unique crossroads where Caribbean, European, and American cultures and cuisines meet. In The Flavors of the Florida Keys, Linda Gassenheimer brings the islands to your kitchen with over two hundred recipes that range from the humble (Bahamian Conch Chowder) to the sophisticated (Crab Cakes with Pommery Mustard Sauce) to the comforting (Sweet Potato Bisque) to the unusual (Heavenly Hogfish). In her quest for the best of the Keys’ culinary traditions, Gassenheimer has been everywhere from waterfront beach shacks to resort dining rooms, while collecting the stories of the men and women behind the recipes—the eccentric artists and writers, the local fishermen, and the bon vivants captured by the magical atmosphere of the region. Your dinner companions include chef Doug Shook from acclaimed Louie’s Backyard, Elena Spottswood, a member of one of the original Conch families, who shares her recipe for a perfect Cuban Mojito, and Wolfgang Birk, whose Ocean Bounty serves up an abundance of superlative seafood from the surrounding seas. Travel the Keys with Gassenheimer’s “highly recommended” book by your side, and discover its hidden treasures—perfect as a stove-side companion for bringing the sunlight and spirit of the Keys to your own dining table, whether it be for cocktails, appetizers, entrees, side dishes, salads, sandwiches, soups, or desserts (Library Journal).

Now in its third edition, Victoria Shearer's successful cookbook is being taken to the next level with over 60 new recipes and even more archival photos. A perfect guide for home cooks of all levels of cooking, Florida Keys Cookbook invites readers to experience the culinary excellence and cultural wonder that embodies the Florida Keys.

The Florida Keys Cookbook is a fascinating combination of food history, local lore, and over 175 mouth-watering recipes showcasing the Florida Keys' bounty from Keys restaurant chefs and home cooks. Archival photographs and informative sidebars round out the newly designed full color second edition of this beautiful and treasured book that is a celebration of the paradise that is the Florida Keys.

Surrounded by water, the Florida Keys yields a bounty that easily could qualify as the eighth wonder of the world. The Keys can confidently boast that nowhere else in the continental US will you find fresher, more innovatively prepared fish and seafood. Special natural resources, from stone crabs and yellowtail snapper to cracked conch and key limes, are served any way you like and the relaxed atmosphere of the restaurants is reflected in the cuisine. Be it a roadside cafe or a resort dining room, the cuisine is all “Keys casual.” With recipes for the home cook from Florida's most celebrated eateries and showcasing over 200 full-color photos featuring mouth-watering dishes, famous chefs, and lots of local flavor, Florida Keys & Key West Chef's Table is the ultimate gift and keepsake cookbook for both tourists and residents of the Keys.

This unique cookbook is a collection of recipes from the Florida Keys. It was compiled by Phil deMontmollin, native floridan and previous co-owner of the Lime Tree Bay Report on Long Key.