A review by jamie_bibliotecaria
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof

4.0

Middle-aged white couple buys a sailboard and takes a two-year sea voyage, mostly around the Caribbean. The husband is really the sailor in the family but the wife finds a way to make the trip her own as well—mostly through cooking. Through befriending locals, she learns to cook a variety of new foods and, of course, they have all sorts of adventures—some of them dangerous. I found it a little dull, but only because travel writing just isn’t my cup of tea. It’s fairly engaging; if it sounds like the sort of thing you normally like, then you’ll like it.