A welcoming paean to home, recipes, and family, and although the emphasis is the Dominican Republic, there are few whose mouths will not water over these pages. A feast for cultural sharing, awakening, and creating.
The comfort of books is well known but perhaps never tackled so resolutely. The children here are relatable and never precocious, keeping the argument civilized, sincere, and for readers, too, win-win.
This feels like the first book of a beautiful relationship, and the other condiments, or side characters, are ready to step into the refrigerator’s glowing limelight as well. Readers will clamor for more.
With a list in the back for combatting climate change and another for calming down in case of anxiety, this is a well-intentioned debut, but likely an additional purchase.
One for the garden shelves, or intergenerational collections, this is an excellent book for vocabulary building with lap-sitters or in preschool settings.
A pleasant book to browse through or for simple research, with a diverse cast and population numbers that will make world travelers even of the armchair variety.