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HomeCookbooksThai CookbooksA Taste of Old Cuba: More Than 150 Recipes for Delicious, Authentic, and Traditional Dishes |
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50 of 52 found the following review helpful:
 A Taste of Old Cuba Jul 09, 2000
By D. Vazquez
I cannot tell how much I love this book. When i first bought it i took it to my grandmother to share it with her. She got misty eyed reading it, she said that it reminded her of her mother cooking for her and her 11 brothers & sisters in Cuba - there were recipes in the book that she had not had since she left Cuba in the 60s. When she passed, she took some of the best cooking with her. The book gives me recipes that taste exactly the way i remember them - never fails. The following Christmas i bought 9 copies for my family's 3rd generation women so that we don't forget, and have since bought several more as gift whenever the subject of good Cuban recipes has come up. Buy the book, i promise you won't need anything else!
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 EXCELLENT CUBAN RECIPE BOOK!! Jul 11, 1999
I first read this book at a Library and enjoyed so that I took it out a second time. To a person who knows cuban food, this book is the portal to paradise. The recipies are authentic and are written very clearly and very easy to understand. I lived in Matanzas and Varadero during the 50s and the reminiscenses are true. I enjoyed this book tremendously and I will recommend it to many of my friends. It would be great if translated to spanish. A lot of people that live in Miami who came to the US from Cuba do not speak english.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Right on the mark!!! Jan 31, 1999
By sandraal@flinet.com
If you are looking for authentic Cuban recipe's, then this is the book for you.Having been raised in a Cuban household I grew up with just these kinds of foods. But alas I never did pay attention to the actual cooking,now that I have my own family, I needed and wanted these recipe's, but all previous book's I purchased were a big disappointment,they all missed the mark when it came to the authentic taste of my abuelas(grandma's) cooking! Finally I came across Mrs,Lluria De O'Higgins book and I am delighted to report that these are the recipe's I recall from my childhood. From the arroz con pollo to the paella all are truly wonderful!! Thank You Mrs, O'Higgins, I now have something to pass on to my own daughter!
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
makes me feel that Iam in my mothers kitchen Jul 10, 1998
Even though she missed some more authentic receipes I still enjoyed the book and would recomened it to anyone who would like to cook in Cuban, I should know Iam the chef at Azucar Cuban Cuisine in Edgewater New jersey.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
This book is as much a classic memoir as it is a cookbook. Mar 17, 1999
The recipes in this book are authentically Cuban and easy to follow. In addition, the book contains a rich array of anecdotes from Mrs. O'Higgins' childhood which bring alive a time and a place no longer available to us. The stories are as great a treasure as the recipes, for they are written in a style which absolutely characterizes the Cuban people, a style which is full of wit and humor and a general attitude of generosity towards the world and towards the world's many gifts. Cuban joie de vivre fairly leaps off every page of this lively and extremely reliable cookbook.
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