A Taste of Guam

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Title: A Taste of Guam
Author: Paula A. Lujan Quinene
Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com
Year: 2006
122 pages

Guam.

A cookbook of Chamorro and other Guamanian recipes, plus a handful of the author's favorites. Some look distinctly appealing, some include too many canned items for me to be very enthusiastic, and some are inexplicable because one or more ingredients are not adequately identified. The volume would benefit from photos or even line drawings of some cooking techniques that are more local than universal.

As with many self-published books, I wish the author had had this proofread better.

For an interesting look at the cultural context, see Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind. 


The author's blog, with helpful photos, is here: http://www.paulaq.com/atasteofguam.html