Joy, the Joyful Cookster

By JoyAnne Molloy

The word's out that Joyful Foods Caribbean Restaurant has a little secret - a very little secret. The media eventually discovers that nine-year-old Joy is the head chef at her parent's restaurant. Her life takes a turn for the best since being exposed and she is invited to compete against experienced, master chefs who are three times her age in various cooking competitions across the country. The fun really begins when she brings along four of her best friends from her third-grade class on a culinary adventure of a lifetime!

• Language: English
• Publisher: JoyAnne Molloy
• Release date: Jan 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215374573

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JOYANNE MOLLOY

Chapter 1

Small Island Girl

My name is JoyAnne . People call me Joy, for short. I was born on the island of St. Croix [pronounced like Saint Croy], which is part of the United States Virgin Islands. My daddy was born there, too. St. Croix is a beautiful island with white sand beaches, cool tropical breezes, and lots of sweet mangoes and sugar cane. My mom was born on the island of Dominica - not to be confused with the Dominican Republic. My mom speaks broken French, which is called patois or creole. Dominica is also beautiful but is a much larger island than St. Croix. You can find volcanoes, rivers, boiling lakes, sulphur springs, and the biggest avocadoes you have ever seen there.

My mom loves to cook, just like her mom, my granny Floress. I think she is an excellent cookster – someone who cooks fabulously well.

From the time I was a baby, I enjoyed watching my mom cook. I remember sitting in my highchair, looking at what my mom was doing in the kitchen. Sometimes she turned on the stove and placed a big pot of water on it. She then poured some of this and a little dash of that into the big, bubbling pot. Then she chopped a bit of green stuff followed by the red things, and it all went into the pot along with the other white ball that