Home cooks will love serving up bold-flavoured tropical comfort food fromPlease Wait to Be Tasted, the first cookbook fromLil' Deb's Oasis, the James Beard Award-nominated hotspot inHudson, New York. More than a recipe collection, it's a big-hearted celebration of food, love, and community.For flavour-craving, art-loving, community-celebrating home cooks,Please Wait to Be Tastedserves up tropical comfort recipes, alongside musings on wine, music, love, sex, friendship, and fashion. AtLil' Deb's Oasisin the Hudson Valley of New York, chefsCarla Kaya Perez-GallardoandHannah Black, both art school graduates, have created a bright, welcoming, rainbow-coloured, LGBTQ+ inclusive community, where guests are treated to "hot, sticky, juicy, moist fever dreams of flavour." Their recipes mesh respect for cultural traditions with a twist:Ceviche Mixto with Popcorn;Charred Octopus in the Ink of Its Cousin, Sweet Plantains with Green Cream,Abuela's Flan, and more. With "Please Wait to be Tasted" (a phrase featured in the restaurant's waiting area), you can bring these recipes home.Foreword by Grammy-winning singer-songwriterMeshell Ndegeocello.