Comida Cubana

Part travel guide, part cookbook, be amazed by a lush portrait of Cuba, from coast-to-coast, and fall in love with a collection of authentic Cuban recipes. In her debut book, Mi Comida Latina, Marcella Kriebel created a new type of cookbook. It combined vivid watercolors with the culinary traditions of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Now, Marcella returns with a new collection of recipes that span the country of Cuba from coast to coast. Travel the island and discover the Cuban take on classic dishes like empanadas as well as unique Cuban recipes like Bacán(plantain and crab steamed in banana leaves) Calaú(traditional greens stew), and Pastelitos de Guayaba(puff pastries with guava paste). Learn about the country’s food culture and ingredients through interviews and local stories, then complete the experience with an authentic Cuban cocktail or a post-meal café con leche. There's no need to wait, grab a plate straight from the island now!

350 recetas clásicas que captan la esencia del paladar criollo En Cocina cubana, Raquel Roque ha juntado las recetas más queridas de su familia para ofrecer toda una selección de platos suculentos a los amantes de la cocina cubana. Tanto los expertos como los principiantes querrán aprovechar esta oportunidad de preservar para las generaciones venideras la rica tradición culinaria de la isla, o de experimentarla por primera vez. Las recetas incluidas aquí reflejan lo mejor de dos mundos —el mundo colonial español y el mundo criollo—, creando así una mesa variada y sabrosa, salpicada de la sazón que define la cultura caribeña. Esta nueva edición de Cocina cubana comparte la historia detrás de cada receta, y cuenta con cinco capítulos nuevos de cócteles, batidos, sándwiches, comida para bebés y recetas típicas de otros países latinoamericanos. Además incluye recetas de cubanos ilustres, tales como: · Pollo guarachero de Celia Cruz · Pavo Saralegui de Cristina Saralegui · Frijoles negros de Victor’s Café · Flan de la abuela Yiyita del Padre Alberto · Picadillo de carne de Carlos Eire La cocina cubana es una combinación de colores y sabores que invita por sí sola a sentarse a la mesa para saborear y disfrutar de un plato de arroz con frijoles y plátanos maduros. Desde sopas y cócteles hasta mariscos y carnes, Cocina cubana es la colección más comprensiva de las renombradas recetas de Cuba, detalladas en pasos sencillos que renovarán su entusiasmo por la cocina.

Explore the recipes and stories behind the vibrant cuisine of Cuba in this beautiful, fully-illustrated cookbook.

Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality--is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Author Louis A. Pérez, Jr., integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.

How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports—a signal feature of the Cuban economy—was set in place. Cuban efforts to diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on the Cuban market as sugar growers were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to control Cuban rice markets. Perez's chronicle culminates in the 1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island, as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista. U.S. interests prevailed—a success, Perez argues, that contributed to undermining Batista's capacity to govern. Cuba's inability to develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice, but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.

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