Cuban Home Cooking: Favorite Recipes from a Cuban Home Kitchen

by Jane Cossio and Joyce Lafray

Book Overview

Once exotic, Cuban cuisine has now entered the mainstream. Similar to Spanish cooking but with distinctive spice blends created by the Cuban people, authentic Cuban cooking is fresh, aromatic, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942084373
• ISBN13: 9780942084375
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Seaside Publishing
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource

Excellent book full of real authentic recipes! A must in any Cuban kitchen! I bought this for a friend and loved it so much that I didn't wanted to keep it. Best Cuban recipe book I've ever come across and I'm 1/2 Cuban so that's saying ALOT!

Excellent & Easy Cuban Food!

Hi there, I am half Cuban and was raised on the delicious cooking of my Cuban grandmother. The recipes in this book remind me of her cooking. They are easy to follow and tasty. I'm only an average cook with not much time and this was a good book to have. I once made six pounds of the black bean recipe for a family dinner and people where scraping the bottom of the pot for more! The picadillo is fast and yummy. As is the beef stew. Buy it and Enjoy!

Great book - and I'm Cuban-American!

Raised with typical Cuban dishes (both of my parents immigrated from Cuba to the US), I searched for a good, concise Cuban cookbook and found it! This it it! Sure, there aren't any fancy pictures but there are also no fancy ingredients or obscure dishes. The list of recipes covers all the basic dishes (I read the list to my mother and she agrees - it's all in there) and the recipes are so simple and easy (almost all are only a paragraph long). I've tried other Cuban recipe books and I still *always* come back to this one for dishes that turn out as close to Mom's as possible. Maybe I'll just toss the other books out... all I need is this one!

The recipes were just like mom used to cook.

I was looking for the right Cuban cookbook for a long time. I received this cookbook as a Christmas gift and it was the answer to all my prayers. It was simple to read and follow and my husband love the food. I am thankful for this cookbook.

Very Authentic !!!

Many books claim to give AUTHENTIC recipes with there Colorful Pictures and expensive price tag but most fail to claim. Having lived in South Florida and eating the foods on a regular basis I have to say that this little book is as Authentic as it gets from the ingredients of the black Beans to the secret ingredient in (Bistec Empanizado)Cracker Meal; which I could never figure out until reading this book,. A great book which I give five stars. If only they publish a greek cooking book as authentic as this one.