Download or read book South American Food & Cooking written by Jenni Fleetwood and published by Southwater Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant and inspiring guide to South American cuisine celebrates the abundance of rich and exotic tastes that reflect the diversity within the continent. The first section introduces ingredients, techniques and recipes from the traditional cuisines of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. The recipes cover every kind of local food style, including street snacks, salsas, seafood, meat, poultry and desserts, from the many different climates of the region. Mexican cooking introduces rich salsas with chocolate of the Andes, Colombian dishes use complementary tropical ingredients like pineapple and coconut, and Argentinian recipes celebrate their superb grassland beef. Lavishly illustrated, this is the only guide the adventurous cook will need to South American food.