Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
Oct 2007 · Sold by Penguin
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Born into a well-to-do family in Cuba in 1953, Eduardo Machado saw firsthand the effects of the rising Castro regime. When he and his brother were sent to the United States on one of the Peter Pan flights of 1961, they did not know if they would ever see their parents or their home again. From his experience living in exile in Los Angeles to becoming an actor, director, playwright and professor in New York, Machado explores what it means to say good-bye to the only home one’s ever known, and what it means to be a Latino in America today. Filled with delicious recipes and powerful tales of family, loss, and self discovery, Tastes Like Cuba delivers the story of Eduardo’s rich and delectable life—reminding us that no matter where we go, there is no place that feels (and tastes) better than home.
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Eugenie Nable
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February 7, 2017
I love this author's journey. It's been 8 years since I read this book, and it still resonates in memory and taste buds...a recipe for Newspaper Soup, trying to make Cuban food in Texas with yellow government cheese. Family recipes bubble up from a memoir past and present of a New York playwright who is gay, who traveled to Cuba via the Bahamas before the U.S. ban was lifted and discovered hidden opportunities to partake of the freshest and finest Cuban cooking. Sub-rosa, the tension of illegal/criminal status of gay people in Cuba informs the author's awareness and his observations.
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