Cocina Criolla (Creole Cuisine)

The foremost authority on Puerto Rican cooking is a silver haired, stylish, and warmly hospitable woman named Carmen Aboy Valldejuli. Her books are considered today to be the definitive books on island cooking.

Written entirely in Spanish, Cocina Criolla is the standard reference work on traditional Puerto Rican cooking. It is in its 68th printing and has special appeal to those who enjoy the island's cuisine. In addition to offering hundreds of delicious recipes, Cocina Criolla includes advice for the inexperienced cook. This advice ranges from suggestions about the most efficient way to read a recipe to recommendations on what kitchen equipment every cook should have.

Cocina Criolla cannot be compared to the general run of cookbooks. It differs greatly from them in many points. But due to its perfect fit with the current need for practical and useful culinary literature, as well as the detailed and characteristic nature of its recipes, it is truly one of a kind. Cocina Criolla will solve many domestic problems and therefore, is destined to be an indispensable book in the home.

The English edition of this book, Puerto Rican Cookery, is in its 36th printing with more than 167,000 copies in print and is also available from Pelican.