Cuban Home Cooking: Favorite Recipes from a Cuban Home Kitchen
by Jane Cossio, Joyce Lafray, Susan Sachs

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Book Reviews of Cuban Home Cooking: Favorite Recipes from a Cuban Home Kitchen

Book Review: Delicious introduction to Cuban home style cooking.
Summary: 4 Stars

Jane Cossio and Joyce LaFray provide a good sampling of Cuban recipes for a variety of dishes, such as soups, vegetable dishes, meat dishes, sea food, desserts, and even Cuban coffee. Do you like soup, and want something different? Look for the recipe for "Quimbombo" or Okra Soup, which calls for okra, pork, green pepper, garlic, plantain, shrimp, and various spices. How about some Calabaza Fritters or Baked Sweet Plantain in Wine? I can't wait to try the Chicken and Yellow Rice, made with green and red peppers, saffron, and beer.

You might try the mouth-watering recipe for "Old Clothes". Huh? This is what the Spanish name, "Ropa Vieja," means--it's a delicious shredded beef dish. The only thing more that I would add is a touch of habanero chile or tabasco sauce. Also, if you have 3,800 people to feed try the Caldo de Elefante, or Elephant Stew. It only takes one elephant and two chickens (just a joke!).

Along with the great recipes, I do appreciate the spiral ring binding which allows me to lay the book flat on my kitchen counter without the usual worry of breaking the binding to make it lie flat, or of pages turning by themselves. Also, the author provides a list of commonly used Cuban foods, with their Spanish translations, and a general inventory of commonly used ingredients to stock in your pantry. -- R. Morley, The Boojum Tree Bookstore.

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