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Havana Salsa

Stories and Recipes

By: Viviana Carballo

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Paperback | 7 August 2007 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78

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With more than seventy mouthwatering recipes throughout, "Havana Salsa" is the vibrant memoir of Viviana Carballo and her extraordinary childhood growing up in Cuba. A collection of stories about her large, extended family -- an eccentric group who conducted their lives against the extraordinary backdrop of Havana -- Carballo recalls the 1940s and 1950s when Havana was a nonstop party, and food and music defined the culture, until Fidel Castro took power in 1959, and she was forced to leave her beloved country.

With each delightful family memory, Carballo showcases the food of her culture and a delectable recipe, beginning with her childhood in the forties (calabaza fritters, sweet plantain tortillas, and oxtail stew), through the sensual fifties (roast shoulder of lamb, Cuban bouillabaisse), and then the first eighteen months of Castro's revolution (mango pie, tamal en cazuela, and papas con chorizo). "Havana Salsa" tells the history of Carballo's Havana as only she can -- through the intimate and unifying experience of food, family, and friends.

Industry Reviews

"What to serve for dinner the night a new dictator comes to town? If you are like Viviana Carballo and lived in Cuba during the heady first days of 1959, you make pollito en cazuela (stewed whole chicken), accompanied by arroz con coco (coconut rice), and wash it all down with a Kir Royale, of course!...[A] witty, delicious book." -- Mirta Ojito, author of Finding Ma±ana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

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