The Wonderful Way Home

by Steve and Marbeth Dunn

Town and Country Creole Cooking

Traditional and Modern Recipes of Haiti

Haiti is world famous for its delicious, spice-laden foods such as rice and beans, griyo and pen patat. Town and Country brings these delicacies into your home – no matter where you live. We have included an assortment of easy traditional and modern Haitian Creole and French-influenced recipes, as well as selections from famous Haitian restaurants.

Our straightforward directions and simple format make your cooking experience as easy as possible, while striving to maintain the authenticity of Haitian cuisine. Town and Country is loaded with extras, variations, and time saving suggestions that make it a cook-friendly recipe collection.

We have provided tips on cooking with Haitian flavors and the uses of unique ingredients, along with charts that tell you the names of foods in French, Creole, and English. Be sure to watch for the added seasoning of Haitian proverbs sprinkled throughout the book – they show great wisdom and a delightful sense of humor.

Heart of Haiti Creole cuisine - recipes revealed and made easy. Tout la - tout fasil!

Plus many more (click) easy traditional and modern Haitian Creole and French recipes.

Hidden Meanings

Truth and Secret in Haiti's Creole Proverbs by Wally Turnbull

For those who love Haiti and students of language and culture.

Featuring over 1200 entries in Creole and English, this is, to date, the most varied and accurate collection of the colorful proverbs that characterize Haiti and her people. Translating a Creole proverb into English requires a fluency of not only both languages, but also of culture, an idiom more difficult to learn than any offered in a grammar book.

Each of the many photographs included with the text, like the proverbs it accompanies, provides an additional window into the soul of Haiti and her people.

Whenever possible, literal rather than common translations are provided that the reader may hear the language as well as the proverbs. We have additionally included explanations of the proverbs’ most common meanings. In many cases, the uses and interpretations of a proverb are as deep and varied as those who speak it.

Hardcover edition of over 250 pages containing more than 1200 entries including:

Original proverbs in Creole

Literal English translations

Interpretations and explanations

Photographic portraits

Learn about Haiti's culture and enjoy practicing Creole at the same time!

God Is No Stranger

Haitian prayers in Creole with English translations

This is a prayer book, but it is unlike many others you may have seen. This book is unique, not only because each prayer is accompanied by a striking photograph, but because each prayer is an example of sincere, heartfelt communication with God. This is a book which teaches the essence of true prayer.

These prayers, printed in the original Creole language with English translations, reflect the paradoxically childlike yet deep faith of a mountain people who have come to know God as a Friend acquainted with their culture and daily lives.

These prayers are refreshing and heartwarming, sometimes almost humorous because of the homespun metaphors which are used.

The photograph which accompanies each prayer tells a story by itself.

Creole Made Easy Workbook

Expanded Guide and Practical Lessons for Creole Made Easy by Betty J Turnbull.

Creole Made Easy Pronunciation Guide

Two CD set pronunciation practice guide accompanies the book Creole Made Easy

How to pronounce Creole letters and words

The basic elements of Creole grammar

Sixteen easy 15-20 minute lessons

Easy practice exercises in English with Creole translation

Creole Made Easy

Simple instruction of Haitian Creole for English speaking people by Wally Turnbull

Ideal for students of the Creole language, newcomers, and visitors to Haiti.

This book, by one of the leading authorities on the Creole language, will have you understanding and speaking basic Creole in a few days. Using the first few lessons and the extensive dictionary/word list at the back of the book you will be able to make yourself understood in two or three hours. Only practice will make your Creole perfect but by the end of these sixteen 15-20 minute lessons you will have the ability and confidence for that practice.

The basic elements of Creole grammar

Sixteen easy 15-20 minute lessons

How to pronounce Creole words

Simple exercises with translation keys

Dictionary of 4,600 Creole English words

Bèl Peyi Mwen - (My Beautiful Country)

Coloring book of Haitian scenes

A coloring book of original drawings of scenes from everyday life in Haiti. Each picture has a short text telling the story of life in rural Haiti.

Elizabeth Turnbull was born and raised in Haiti. She received her BA degree from Wake Forest University, majoring in English and journalism. Her inspiration for her descriptions spring from her love of Haiti and her people.

Kristopher Battles received his BFA degree from Missouri State University in 1991. Since that time he has worked as a graphic designer, portrait and landscape painter and with several private collections. Battles has created his realistic drawings from first hand experience when he taught arts and crafts in the Mountain Maid Self Help Project.

Retail price $5.95