Recipes And Tall Tales From The Legendary Restaurants Of 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 cookbook is a collection of recipes used in restaurants that John and Rhonda have operated during their culinary career. The driving force and focus of their entrepreneurship was based on the simple joy of making people happy. Their collection of recipes represents favorite menu items ordered by customers time and again, some of which have been handed down through their family, as well as recipes shared by close friends. Their restaurants were located along Florida's east coast from St. Augustine to Islamorada in the Florida Keys, hence the name, Old Florida Style Cookery. One of their most famous and successful restaurant ventures was The Lorelei, a long-standing icon of Islamorada. John and Rhonda have spent time in the Bahamas and Jamaica researching good things to eat and how to properly prepare them. Their book also encompasses the history of their restaurant career including many colorful characters of the culinary arts.

Now you can enjoy fabulous food from the Florida Keys & Key West - ?without leaving home!Find out what's cooking in the Florida Keys & Key West, ?in this fun and lively tribute to the island chain's top local restaurants. ?From signature starters and lite bites to tropical mainstays and?decadent desserts, it's a flavorful romp that will keep you hungry for more!?Whether you've been to the Keys or have only dreamed about it,? this keepsake cookbook will stay with you long after ?the dishes are done.

Enjoy fabulous food from the Florida Keys & Key West - without leaving home!Find out what's cooking in the Florida Keys & Key West, in this fun and lively tributeto the island chain's top local chefs. From signature starters and lite bites to tropical mainstaysand decadent desserts, it's a tasty adventure that will keep you hungry for more! Whether you've been to the Keys or have only dreamed about it, this keepsake cookbook will stay with you long after the dishes are done

This cookbook has been created in order to pass along recipes that were collected and used to in restaurants John and his wife, Rhonda, operate over the years. This collection of recipes represents favorite menu items customers ordered time and time again. Several recipes have been handed down and shared frequently at family meals, while other recipes were shared by close friends. Their restaurants were located along Florida's east coast from St. Augustine down to Islamorada in the Florida Keys, hence the name "Old Florida Style Cookery". Most of their restaurants specialized in mainly seafood, with some Cajun and Creole thrown in. John and Rhonda spent time in the Bahamas and Jamaica researching good things to eat and how to properly prepare them.

Mixing elegance with an island attitude, Louie's Backyard is an award-winning Key West, Florida restaurant famous for its fine food and relaxed oceanfront ambience, and what marks the food at Louie's backyard is innovation. Chef Doug Shook likes to create new variations daily. "Inventing is the joy of cooking," he says, which means the recipes in The Louie's Backyard Cookbook are the best of many recipes Shook has created over the years. They are for people who enjoy the entire process of creating a meal, from procuring the ingredients to making a handsome presentation of a finished dish. In this cookbook, you’ll discover delicious dishes such as: Conch Fritters, Key Lime Pie, Jerk-Rubbed Free-Range Chicken Breast, Sauteed Key West Shrimp with Bacon and Stone-Ground Grits, Conch Chowder, and more! The Louie's Backyard Cookbook contains not only 150 of Chef Shook's most creative recipes, but takes you behind the scenes through photos and stories to learn about the restaurant and the Key West culture that lures people with its beauty and keeps them with its liberty. This cookbook is the next best thing to experiencing the islands themselves!

More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary representation of the ocean, rivers, and rich fertile loam in and around the coastal South. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford’s Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food.