Pa­tri­cia Butch­er, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor at the T&T Hos­pi­tal­i­ty and Tourism In­sti­tute (TTHTI) has de­scribed their in-house cui­sine pub­li­ca­tion as a dream come true.

Cook­ing with Con­fi­dence for Every Oc­ca­sion is the ti­tle giv­en to the cook­book that serves up ap­pe­tis­ers, main cours­es, and de­lec­table desserts that promis­es to ex­cite pal­lets on every oc­ca­sion.

The soft launch for the cook­book took place on Car­ni­val Fri­day at the TTHTI's Taste of Car­ni­val event where vis­i­tors in at­ten­dance pur­chased copies.

One hun­dred and twen­ty-nine au­to­graphed copies were sold and ini­tial re­spons­es from those who have whipped up many of the de­light­ful dish­es is that the recipes are easy to fol­low. Even the health con­scious among them were pleased.

Cook­ing with Con­fi­dence for Every Oc­ca­sion is avail­able at Nigel Khan, The Book Spe­cial­ist, RIK and Mo­hammed's Book Store.

Butch­er said the team was am­bi­tions and want­ed the cook­book made more ac­ces­si­ble to the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket through Ama­zon and Barnes and No­ble.

"I re­call dream­ing of our in­sti­tu­tion de­vel­op­ing a cook­book and my in­sis­tence over the years with sev­er­al culi­nary pro­gramme heads start­ing with Raphael Me­dia to speed up the work on this project, so that it could be brought to com­ple­tion. The idea was born when I re­alised the ex­cep­tion­al tal­ent of the many culi­nary pro­fes­sion­als that were pass­ing through these hal­lowed walls. TTHTI has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the de­vel­op­ment of culi­nary pro­fes­sion­als in T&T and the in­tro­duc­tion of this cook­book on the culi­nary land­scape will put an in­deli­ble mark on our con­tri­bu­tion in this field," Butch­er said.