But there’s no need to unpick the various influences behind each recipe: what you need to know is that her food is just gorgeous!

This book is full of interesting, creative yet easily achievable recipes which bring something you’ve not eaten before to your table. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Jamaican food is often misrepresented, simplified and reduced to being really spicy - and MEAT heavy. Author Denai Moore covers the spectrum of Jamaican dishes in this cookbook from Rice Pea Arancini to heart of palm-based 'Salt Fish' paired with fried savory green plantains. Whilst her recipes honour her early upbringing in Jamaica, Denai is inspired by her expansive travels around the world, and the vibrant, diverse London food scene.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I just HAVE to read the entire book before I can decide which one of these delectable dishes I will make.

Moore is the real thing: a proper eater and true cook with real flair for flavour; her recipes, along with her writing about them, are a-brim with such gleeful generosity, fusing the ingredients and traditions of Jamaica with foods of other cultures with Ottolenghi-like brio but entirely authentic to Moore’s own identity and appetite. I’ve already bought two copies as presents for friends, and I know I shall be giving a lot more out as the year progresses. Don’t expect a comprehensive guide to “the greatest Jamaican hits”, as Moore warns in her introduction: do expect recipe after recipe that will help you usher in real joy in the kitchen and at the table. An incredibly exciting, fresh modern twist on authentic flavours I love with bold clever and creative plays on veg!At the start of 2020, Denai collaborated with trusted Burger Joint ‘Honest Burger’, creating a Jamaican inspired vegan burger, featuring her Apricot Scotch Bonnet Ketchup. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I've already bought two copies as presents for friends, and I know I shall be giving a lot more out as the year progresses. But I shouldn’t let you go before I’ve told you about some of the desserts, too, so let me just say to you Small-Batch Sticky Toffee Pudding, Jamaican Ginger and Marzipan Loaf and Coffee Miso Caramel Chocolate Pudding!

My copy of Plentiful is so a-flutter with post-it notes that I don’t know how to constrain myself to a select few here, but I’ll do my best. And may I add that I purchased another one to give to someone who truly appreciates flavorful and well seasoned food.

While we all know the old adage about not judging a book by its cover, I have to tell you that the vibrancy, vigour and exuberance of the cover of Plentiful by Denai Moore is a graphic evocation of exactly the mood and food you will find in its pages. Denai is a Jamaican chef who loves to make vegan food and in Plentiful she debunks this taboo about Jamaican food.