Tastes Like Cuba Hardback - 2007
by Machado, Eduardo; Domitrovich, Michael
Tastes Like Cuba is the moving account of an exile searching for the identity he's lost and becoming someone else in the process.". An internationally acclaimed playwright, Eduardo Machado has grappled with questions of identity, loss and resistance throughout his life and work. He has more than any other playwright been able to convey the experiences of both the Cubans who chose to stay in Cuba and those who chose to leave. His fearless style and unabashed politicism in the face of dissent have made him a controversial figure to the Cubans and Americans on opposite sides of an intense conflict.
In his memories and in his more recent travels to Cuba, he has found that the most natural means of connecting with today's Cuban experience is through food. Machado says, 'When I taste something I haven't tasted in twenty years, I can't resist that connection to the past, to the conflict, to the identity that is mine. I know the feeling as I taste the flavor. There are no arguments, no political controversies, just the real sensation. If it's that complex, it must be Cuban.'
To any exile, food represents not only the lost comfort of home, but the best chance to reclaim it. The stories of Machado's life from child of privilege in pre-Revolutionary Cuba; to exile in Los Angeles; to actor, director, playwright and professor in New York are interleaved with recipes for the meals that have enriched him. Every recipe has been updated for the modern home cook, enabling us to recreate the flavors of traditional Cuban dishes such as Machado's favorite roast pork and his grandfather's arroz con pollo, as well as the cuisine' of necessity he encountered in 1960's suburban America: Velveeta, SPAM, and other processed wonders. What emerges is a larger picture of what it means to be a Latino in America today. For anyone who has ever longed for a home, real or imagined, Tastes Like Cuba delivers a fascinating story of two worlds and one delectable life.
Details
- Title Tastes Like Cuba
- Author Machado, Eduardo; Domitrovich, Michael
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 368
- Language EN
- Publisher Gotham, New York
- Date 2007-10-18
- ISBN 9781592403219
Media reviews
More Copies for Sale
Tastes Like Cuba : An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Michael Domitrovich; Eduardo Machado
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Machado, Eduardo; Domitrovich, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Machado, Eduardo; Domitrovich, Michael
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba : An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Michael Domitrovich; Eduardo Machado
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba : An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Michael Domitrovich; Eduardo Machado
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.62FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Machado, Eduardo,Domitrovich, Michael
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.81$3.95 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba : An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Machado, Eduardo, Domitrovich, Michael
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.88FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba : An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Machado, Eduardo, Domitrovich, Michael
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
- Item Price
-
$6.88FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Eduardo Machado,Michael Domitrovich
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Syracuse, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$7.50$6.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
by Eduardo Machado; Michael Domitrovich
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781592403219 / 1592403212
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
$8.05FREE shipping to USA