~Nominated for a James Beard Award in the international cookbook category!~ The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New
~Nominated for a James Beard Award in the international cookbook category!~
The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources.
Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective of their secrets. Content with a private kind of renown, they demonstrate an elusive turn of hand that transforms simple recipes into bright and memorable meals that draw family and friends to their tables time and again. More than just a list of ingredients or series of steps, Cuban cooks’ tricks and touches hide in plain sight, staying within families or being passed down in well-worn copies of old cookbooks largely unread outside of the Cuban community.
Here you’ll find documented recipes for everything from iconic Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish accents and African ingredients, accompanied by details about historical context and insight into cultural nuances. More than a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a celebration of Cuban cooking, culture and cuisine. With stunning photographs throughout and over 110 deliciously authentic recipes this cookbook invites you into one of the Caribbean’s most interesting and vibrant cuisines.
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Hard to find Cuban recipes I received this book in 2 days. It was in excellent condition. I probably own 30 Cuban cookbooks. This one will be one that i go back to regularly. I have already made the picadillo, masas de puerco, panquecitos and tomorrow will be fricasse de pollo. What drew me to this book were 2 things.First were the photos. I lived in Miami for 26 years. I know these pictures are not from Miami, but they remind me of Miami so much. Also in all my Cuban cookbooks there were no recipes for panquecitos. When…
A must-have for anyone who loves cooking Cuban food I married into a Cuban family and absolutely love the cuisine, but almost none of my in-laws like to cook! Thus, I’ve spent the last several years collecting a mish-mash of Cuban recipes from a variety of sources. Now, with “The Cuban Table,” I finally have a definitive, go-to Cuban cookbook.First things first, this cookbook is gorgeous. The sturdy cover, incredible photos, heavy paper stock, etc., all combine to create a cookbook that looks and feels like it belongs on the…
The BEST in class! I collect cookbooks and have for over 50 years. As a Cuban-American, a full two shelves of my cookbook stash is on Cuban cuisine. I have cookbooks that my mother brought from Cuba; the first booklets that were published by the exile community in the 60’s (some of which are just a few pages stapled together). Not to mention binders and binders of recipes published in newspapers and magazines. I mention all this to establish myself as a Cuban cookbook fanatic. (I won’t go into what kind of a cook…