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Tastes Like Cuba:an Exile's Hunger For Home
[Paperback - 2008]
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Sub-category: Memoirs
Publisher: Avery | ISBN: 9781592404056 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .312 | Dimensions: 5.35 x .8 x 7.96 inches

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.

Tastes Like Cuba is about what it means to leave behind the only home you know-and become someone else in the process. Machado chronicles the search for his lost home through the powerful memories of meals that have enriched his life. He includes traditional recipes alongside dishes using Velveeta, SPAM, and other processed wonders of 1960s American "cuisine." Machado directs Columbia University's graduate playwriting department and is the artistic director of INTAR, a Latino theater in NY."

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