Ann vanderhoof biography

          ANN VANDERHOOF is an.!

          An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

          February 6, 2017
          My Rating: 4 awesome stars!!

          Book Name: An Embarrassment of Mangoes (A Caribbean Interlude)

          Author: Ann Vanderhoof

          Genre: Non Fiction/Travelogue/Culture&History/Caribbean food recipe guide

          Before I start my review, here is some trivia.

          ANN VANDERHOOF is an award-winning writer and magazine and book editor whose work has appeared in publications including Gourmet, Islands, Sail, Outside.

        1. ANN VANDERHOOF's debut book, An Embarrassment of Mangoes—an account of a two-year midlife break during which she sailed from Canada to the Caribbean—was an Amazon Top Ten Book of the Year for Travel and a national bestseller in Canada.
        2. ANN VANDERHOOF is an.
        3. She writes for magazines such as Gourmet, Islands, and More.
        4. Though she studied art history and museology in the U.S., when she moved to Toronto in she “somehow fell in love with publishing.” She.

          5. Did you know (because I didn't, before I read this book):

          Receta means recipe in Spanish?
          Conch is a popular seafood in the Bahamas?
          Luperon is called a 'Hurricane Hole'?
          Gugua - are not a strange species of insect but actually what the public minivans are called?

          Lol
          Lambi is not lamb, but the Creole word for Conch?
          Fig, is not Fig, but actually a Banana in the Caribbean - who knew!!
          And many many more such little facts- if you've found this interesting, I would say, you don't even have to read the rest of the review, just read the book!!

          hahah

          Ok, so as part of the 2017 book club reading challenge, we have a travel/tourist challenge where the moderator will selec