King's Creative Kitchen

Book excerpt: King's Creative Kitchen: For the Love of Good Food combines the stories of travel experiences and memorable recipes of the author Barry Marshall King. As a museum professional (educator), he discovered there is little difference between the museum-going experience and good food memories. Each involve active participation, interpretation, and hopefully, a lasting impression. Twenty years of collecting, creating, and sharing of traditional recipes are combined with original dishes for those who value the significance of a food memory. In this extensive collection of recipes, there is a special section that represent the author's Native heritage. It is his hope to introduce and share with the world these Native dishes with a modern interpretation. Each of the over a hundred recipes' main feature is flavor, often bold and hearty, as well as delicate and light, stirring the senses often forgotten now reawakened. One of the author's favorite original recipe a beautifully briny, delectable, and created with friends one moonlit night on the Chesapeake Bay. Another recipe is an inspired combination of spanakopita (Greek) and a Jamaican patty . . . simply delicious! Nature's bounty is the canvas from which he masterfully creates dishes to be remembered and admired for years to come. You, too, will be most proud and satisfied with each completed dish. Preparation and cooking methods are comprehensive. All that's needed is basic kitchen equipment and a little patience to produce quite satisfactory results. The recipes are well suited for family dinners, date night, pre-theater or party food, workplace pot lucks. Your chance to show you care. Your chance to create bonds through the food experience as interpreted by the hands, heart, and mind of an artist and true lover of good food.