a conversation with Leigh-Ann Martin
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If you’ve started to make your gift list, be sure to add cookbooks to the mix. They are the gift that keeps giving. Ten Speed Press has released some amazing titles this year….one of a few saving graces of 2020.
Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry, complete with a tool and pantry guide and a dope ass soundtrack, available on Spotify.
In Bibi’s Kitchen by Hawa Hassan, this cookbook goes beyond just incredible recipes it captures all the love and warmth of a grandmother’s love and honors the rich culinary contributions of women living in the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean.
Jubilee by Toni Tipton Martin, a celebration of the unsung masters of American cooking and a collection of recipes from two centuries of African American cooking.
Meet Chef Leigh-Ann Martin, a classically trained chef and food writer. In her food you taste a blend of her Trinidadian heritage and the influence of NYC. Her blog, Gasparillo Junction Blog – offers the reader recipes, tips, and tools that help them create delicious meals that are artfully designed and portioned for solo dining. “One of my missions is to re-introduce home cooking back into the lives of others, especially the average single lady or gentleman.”
After working at Butter Restaurant and The Darby Supper Club, she started an intimate pop-up dinner series called A Table For Four, creating dishes that merge her Trini upbringing with NYC’s culinary landscape. This led to her cooking at events and other pop-up dinners within the New York City area, Wisconsin, London and Grenada. She has been a contributing writer for Ark Republic, Cooking Sense and Tenderly Magazines and her work has been highlighted in A Hungry Society, The New York Times, Vittles, Eater and The Washington Post.
