Cookbook for Costa Rican frutas y verduras?

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I hope that I can get a bunch of responses to this query. I’ll soon be moving down to San Isidro de El General, in the middle of a large agricultural area. There are a lot of fruits and vegetables that I’ve never seen before. Is there a book that can give me an idea of how to prepare these foods? I don’t even know how to eat mangoes and the different types of bananas are equally strange. I tried preparing tomatillas and the end product was unappetizing. I also tried to make lemonade from a citrus fruit that was green with orange pulp and it was undrinkably sour. I want to experience the pura vida life as completely as possible, and I don’t want to throw good food away because I don’t know how to prepare it.

Thanks for any advice on books to buy. More thanks if you can provide me with a few recipes.

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[awilson1333]

If you do a search online of Costa Rican recipes you will get several hits. Try this website as it does have a section on fruits and vegetables although not extensive explanations or recipes but you may find more details at other sites.

http://puriscal-online.com/food.htm

The following websites are those of Costa Rican cooking shows, they are in Spanish, but have recipes listed. They also provide a list of recipe books.

http://www.vivianaentucocina.com/
http://www.cocinandocontiaflorita.tv/

Have fun cooking!

[SusanC]

I have a cookbook “Sabor!” by Caroline Avila and Marilyn Root. It includes many line drawings so you can indentify the item. I purchased this at Los Lagos near Arenal several trips ago.

The back cover lists the publisher as Publicaciones de Las Americas SA, with an address in Grecia.

Tel/Fax (506) 494-3514
email: Russello@racsa.co.cr

Good luck! I have not tried most of the recipes because you can’t get these things in Colorado.

[awilson1333]

I found some additional sites that have recipes, once again in Spanish, but the first site listed in particular had a large list of recipes for fruits and vegetables.

http://www.arecetas.com/index.html –> click on Recetario por tipo de Alimentos in the left frame and then click on either Verduras or Frutas
http://www.sabores.co.cr/
http://www.recetas.com/p/recetas-costarricens…

Cheers!

[editer]

Many thanks to everyone for the leads. I’ll follow up on all of them. I expect to have a lot of fun exploring the different fruits and vegetables that are completely strange to me.

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[ocasocerro]

Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Exotic-Fruit-Book-Subtropical/dp/0898156882

[editer]

Perfecto! Muchas gracias a todos!

Edited on Apr 11, 2008 06:58

Edited on Apr 11, 2008 06:58

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