Every now and then, I come across a cookbook whose recipes are so compelling I have a tough time choosing what to test first. That’s what happened when I saw Craig and Shaun McAnuff’s Natural Flava, a vegan follow-up to their 2019 book, Original Flava.
Like that book, this one is inspired by their 2018 trip to Jamaica, a couple years after they started making online videos of their Caribbean recipes. The brothers, who are of Jamaican descent, were raised in south London and have long wanted to demystify Caribbean cooking, busting the myths that its recipes are complicated and meat heavy. And they do so with a heaping portion of charm; one of the most delightful parts of their book is their sprinkling in of such terms of “likkle” for “little”, bringing their voices to life.
