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Chef Art Smith (until 2007 personal chef to Oprah Winfrey) award-winning author, restaurateur, contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine and founder of the non-profit charity Common Threads that brings low-income families together through food and art.

Experience the tropical beauty and tastes of this very special region through the books of Rosemary Parkinson. Her book Culinaria: The Caribbean is the one and only book to Caribbean cooking; her Nyam Jamaica is a comprehensive taste of one of the world’s finest cuisines.

Rosie Parkinson does not just produce cookbooks. Since the beginning of the 21st Century, she has chronicled in Caribbean Culinaria and Nyam Jamaica how the culture of foods in the Caribbean has become Caribbean Cuisine – marinated for over 300 years in the pots of villages, the boucans of the forests and sandy beaches aromatized by the bushes of the land. These tomes are filled with mouth-watering photographs of food produced by the descendants of migrants from Europe, Africa, India, China and the Middle East combined with the ancient practices of the indigenous Amerindian people. Now there’s Barbados Bu’n-Bu’n. Look. Read. Try. The after-taste is tantalizingly unbelievable.

Bu’n-Bu’n is an incredible journey…with Rosemary’s inimitable prose, observations, human interest stories and photographs. Exquisite…!

To say that I was blown away is an understatement and I am still bursting with excitement, Barbados Bu’n-Bu’n literally packages by illustration Barbados’ cultural identity. This book is indeed a national treasure.

Nyam Jamaica has been endorsed by the former Prime Minister of Jamaica The Honorable P.J.Patterson.

“As in the fields of music and athletics, the Jamaican cuisine has earned its hallmark of excellence in the international marketplace. The brand is as distinctive as its coffee, reggae or rum and savoured by the connoisseurs of truly exquisite food. Nyam Jamaica takes the reader on an extraordinary culinary tour, no less exciting and delightful than a leisurely trip along our highways and country roads, passing by our lovely beaches, through our charming towns and friendly villages, into our hills and valleys. The recipes reveal the magic and expose the secrets of our wide-ranging Jamaican cuisine – genuinely “bonoonoonos.”

Bu’n-B’un celebrates the glory of pickled hog, the crispness of a deep-fried flying fish and the taut sharpness of a magnificent mellow mauby! This is a valuable Bajan Foodie Encyclopedia. Rosemary herself is a treasure of the Caribbean.

“As in most cultures, food is a common thread in Jamaica and Parkinson has used food as the medium to communicate the country. Nothing escapes her eye. Nothing is too small to relate. And by moving counterclockwise around the island in a systematic fashion, she explores all aspects of “Jah Ja cuisine” with a sense of adventure and humour that bubbles up through the pages.”

“Congrats! When is the Barbados one coming out?”

Acknowledging Parkinson’s full understanding of culinary heritage, wellness and rural tourism in response to the growing demand for fresh and authentic experiences says:

“This is a tome that can so easily be used to impact the minds of Caribbean youth in whose hands the future lies.”

Nyam Jamaica

“Through these pages one can smell the earth of Jamaica.”