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Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
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by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich
Sales Rank: 221387
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List Price: $27.50
$6.99
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on 9-14-2008.
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 368 pages
Published by: Gotham October 18, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1592403212
ASIN: B0014SYQT8
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
In this memoir, playwright and professor Machado (Kissing Fidel) tells the story of his family's escape from Cuba and their assimilation into the U.S. Although his tale features a familiar triumph-over-adversity storyline, it distinguishes itself in descriptions of Cuban delicacies, complete with recipes. Recalling a hasty dinner of swordfish escabeche enjoyed in the midst of the Revolution, he writes, "Something about looking down at a golden slab, cutting into the thick flesh made the meal feel like a luxury." To better share the tastes of home, the author studs the book with recipes for favorites like Roast Pork, heady with garlic and citrus, and Biztec Empanizado, a tropical country-fried steak that's surprisingly light. Though the vivid food writing captivates, the memoir can drag in long reporterly passages, and rankles with a few too many glib assessments: "The shock of dad's departure was that it changed how we understood the very concept of family." Nevertheless, the luxuriant descriptions of family meals, and the obvious joy Machado takes in recounting them, make this memoir a tasty read.
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Olympia Dukakis
Extraordinary, moving, a great read whether you come from Cuba or Greece.
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Hardcover
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home (Hardcover)
Eduardo Machado wrote a wonderful memoir of his early life in Cuba, to his young adult life in Miami and then Los Angeles, and then in his later years in New York and back in California. His food recollections of his early days of Newspaper Soup, Bistec Empanizado, Arroz con Pollo, etc., he describes in such delicious detail. His journey from Cuba to Hialeah and then to Miami pulled at my heart-strings. When him and his family got to Los Angeles, he wrote about many incidents. One in particular affected me very much. Him and his family went shopping at the Central Market in the valley. They were trying to find the foods they had grown up with in Cuba. I could go on with this review, but in short, this book was one of the best memoirs in the food/immigration subjects. Eduardo, thank you very much for a wonderful, tasty, and can't put it down read. Bravo!
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