Cuba!
Recipes and Stories from the Cuban Kitchen [A Cookbook]
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Cuba! explores the magic of this vibrant country through more than 75 recipes that will set taste buds on fire and stories that will delight even the most well-seasoned traveler.
Brazen, bold, and colorful, Cuba is a country that pulses with life. Fascinated by its people and their endlessly delicious home-cooked cuisine, friends Dan Goldberg and Andrea Kuhn have been visiting this magnetic country, capturing its passion and vibrancy, for the past five years. Dan, an award-winning photographer and Andrea, an acclaimed prop stylist and art director, along with renowned food writer Jody Eddy, bring the best of Cuban food to home kitchens with more than 75 meticulously tested recipes. From Cuban-Style Fried Chicken and Tostones Stuffed with Lobster and Conch, to Squid-ink Empanadas and Mojito Cake with Rum-Infused Whipped Cream, this book offers a unique opportunity to bring a little slice of Cuba into your home and onto your plate.
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Photographer Goldberg, art director Kuhn, and food writer Eddy made three visits to Havana and its environs over a five-year period, feasting on the local cuisine and meeting the proud cooks and farmers of the area. They now report back on their sightseeing, with scores of photos and 75 recipes in tow. Among the many interesting insights into Cuba's culinary identity are a look at the Santeria religion, which advises that animals should be appreciated "from conception to consumption," recognition of the black market as an essential source for dessert ingredients, and a brief history of Havana's Chinatown, once the largest in Latin America, now down to a single Chinese chef. An accompanying egg roll recipe calls for hot chiles, chorizo, and black beans. Other treats spread across the 10 chapters include ropa vieja sliders from a section on sandwiches, ribs with guava BBQ sauce, and a shrimp and scallop ceviche. Caffeine and rum duke it out in the beverage chapter, featuring those two classic quaffs, caf cubano and the mojito.
