The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History

The Cuban Table is a thorough, contemporary outline of Cuban food, plans and culture as related by genuine home cooks and expert culinary specialists, restaurateurs and food scholars. Cuban-American food essayist Ana Sofia Pelaez and grant winning picture taker Ellen Silverman went through Cuba, Miami and New York to report and find out about customary Cuban cooking from a wide scope of valid sources.

Cuban home cooks are savagely defensive of their privileged insights. Content with a private sort of prestige, they show a tricky transform of hand that changes basic plans into splendid and critical suppers that attract loved ones to their tables over and over. Something beyond a rundown of fixings or arrangement of steps, Cuban cooks' stunts and contacts cover up on display, remaining inside families or being passed down in all around worn duplicates of old cookbooks generally uninitiated outside of the Cuban people group.

Here you'll discover recorded plans for everything from notable Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish inflections and African fixings, joined by insights regarding authentic setting and knowledge into social subtleties. In excess of a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a festival of Cuban cooking, culture and food. With shocking photos all through and more than 110 flavorfully true plans this cookbook welcomes you into one of the Caribbean's generally fascinating and lively foods.

About the Author

ANA SOFIA PELAEZ grew up in a famous Cuban family as the great-niece of the revered avant-garde painter Amelia Peláez del Casal. Raised in Miami and transplanted to New York, Ana Sofia launched her food blog, Hungry Sofia, in 2008 in an effort to discover the rich smells, heady flavors, and baroque rituals of Latin food. Since then, she has been featured by The New York Times, InStyle magazine, The Huffington Post, Food 52, Apartment Therapy's the Kitchn, iVillage, and NBC Latino. She's appeared on the Cooking Channel's "Stay Hungry" campaign and Aarón Loves NY with Chef Aarón Sanchez. Most recently, Hungry Sofia was nominated by Saveur magazine as one of the Best Regional Cuisine blogs of 2012.

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 i saw this book had one i had to have it. They are delicious little butter flavored pound cakes in a muffin form. I now live in Tennessee and they taste slightly like the corn bread muffins that you get at Famous Dave's restaurant . Furthermore, the first chapter containing recipes for the bakery items has several recipes not included in other books. I highly suggest this book. --The hat lady

I never write reviews but I felt this book deserved it. I am not a good cook. It’s no secret. But I love to eat, especially Cuban food. There are no good Cuban restaurants near me so hence my search for a cookbook for Cuban food. Believe me when I say this is the only one I will use from now on. The food is authentic, delicious, and most importantly, the recipes are easy to follow and turns out every time! It’s amazing. Rice has been very intimidating for me but these recipes make it possible for someone like me to make perfect rice every time! I love each and every recipe and the stories and pictures are just icing on the cake. Thank you so much for this book! --Tachi1