Coconut Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Coconut Recipes. This item is unavailable.Coconut Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Coconut Recipes

Ancient tropical cultures have relied on the coconut as a source of food, material for clothing and housing, and as a source of drink. You will fall in love with the recipes designed around this tasty and useful fruit. Delicious coconuts are versatile, nutritious, and always add a special flair to many dishes, whether used in cakes, pies and breads, in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any number of other imaginative ways. In Coconut Delights Cookbook, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents her collection of more than 270 exciting coconut recipes that will be sure to please everyone. Inside, you will also find some fascinating reading regarding this tropical fruit's history, folklore, cultivation, and much more. With recipes using readily available ingredients, Coconut Delights Cookbook will be a valued addition to any chef's bookshelf.

Karen Jean Matsko Hood and her husband are the parents of twelve children and adopted/foster children. They make their home on their farm in eastern Washington State where they breed Icelandic Horses and Icelandic Sheepdogs. Among her other pursuits, Ms. Hood is a court advocate for the rights of abused and neglected children.She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University.

Karen Jean Matsko Hood is the author of numerous cookbooks, children’s books, poetry and more. A woman of wide interests, she, her husband and twelve children and foster children make their home in Spokane Valley, Washington. Ms. Hood is currently completing work on her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University.