The Pepperpot Diaries

Andi Oliver's deeply personal exploration of Caribbean food showcasing both traditional and new recipes, cherished ingredients and vibrant flavours from across the regionThe ingredients we use in Caribbean cookery tell a story - and it's a hugeswirling tale...The Pepperpot Diaries is Andi Oliver's long-awaited first cookbook. Showcasingboth traditional and new recipes, cherished ingredients and vibrant flavours fromacross the Caribbean. Let Andi Oliver take you on an exploration of identity andheritage as she shows you how to create simple yet sensational dishes that willbring the unbeatable flavours of Caribbean cooking to your table.The story of food captured in this book will take readers on a journey around themelting pot of cultural influences, history and legacy that has uniquely shapedhanded-down and contemporary Caribbean cuisine. Through her travels in Antigua,Andi shares her deeply personal journey on reconnecting with the food she grewup eating - the flavours and ingredients that run through her heart and soul - andwhat the future might hold for Caribbean cookery. This book explores who wewere, who we are, and where we're going - all through the food we eat and thepeople we meet along the way.

Andi Oliver shares the glorious diversity of Caribbean food -- Mark Diacono delicious
Andi Oliver's debut cookbook is brimming with the delicious Caribbean flavours she is renowned for celebrating, incorporating her travels in Antigua to create a unique, excuberant culinary experience. Liz Earle Wellbeing
Not just a cookbook - it's an exploration of heritage and identity, in which mouthwatering recipes for fried dumplings, shrimp fritters, chocolate goat curry and ackee, callaloo and saltfish are interspersed with essays and diary entries from Andi's extended stay in her ancestral home of Antigua. -- Paul Kirkley Waitrose Weekend
Passionate, autobiographical and rammed with Oliver's infectious personality. I defy anyone not to love it. -- Tim Hayward Financial Times - Best Summer Books of 2023
A feast of Caribbean cuisine -- Richard Hopton Country & Town House
Andi Oliver shares the glorious diversity of Caribbean food, influenced by the islands’ indigenous peoples as well as “those who have come and gone”. This is a personal book, communicating the experience of a black British woman drawn to her roots, and the recipes – tea-brined spiced chicken, sticky star fruit pork chops – are really inviting. As Oliver puts it, while there’s “a dark shadow in the story… in our food, there is light and joy and survival…” -- Mark Diacono delicious BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2023
Family and history told through plates of food. When Andi Oliver was stuck in Antigua for three months during the pandemic (her mother’s family is from there), it resulted in this, her first cookbook. All the Caribbean classics you hope for are here: fried dumplings; ackee, saltfish, callaloo; pepperpot; rice and peas; and roti. Many others, too. The dish I cannot wait to eat is the curry goat with chocolate. The hack I’ll use most often is the green seasoning. The recipes are punctuated with diary notes and stories (meet Vicky, the car-park meat-dealer, Sister Hector and Granny), all in Oliver’s warm, infectious voice. She is UK food’s best-loved personality, The Pepperpot Diaries can only add to that. -- Allan Jenkins Observer Food Monthly - BOOKS OF 2023
Broadcaster and chef Andi Oliver describes Caribbean food as ‘constantly evolving and bursting with flavour’. This warm, chatty book mixes tales from her own life with recipes from all over the Caribbean; highlights are chocolate curry goat, green banana and coconut dumplings, and a spicy rice pudding. A delightful guide to this vibrant cuisine. -- Constance Craig Smith The Daily Mail

Andi Oliver is an award-winning chef and broadcaster. She is a regular face on our television screens, as the host of the Sky Arts Live Book Club, Channel 4's Beat the Chef and Food Unwrapped, and as a contributing chef and host on BBC's Saturday Kitchen. She has also been the host of the BBC's Great British Menu for seven years and has an exciting new show coming to BBC2 Andi Oliver's Fabulous Feasts, where she goes around the UK discovering local chefs, suppliers and recipes then bringing it back to the community with a legendary Andi style party. Alongside all these achievements she has been collaborating with her daughter, Miquita for many years starting with their TV show on the BBC The Caribbean with Andi and Miquita. This has now morphed into their successful warm and hilarious podcast Stirring It Up which features celebrities and chefs round a table eating and chatting all things food each week, guests include another DK Author Katie Piper.

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