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See, Learn, Eat: Cooking Demonstration: Maricel Presilla on Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America

Sunday, Nov. 18, 12:00 p.m., Wine Theatre @ Miami Culinary Institute (415 N.E. Second Avenue)

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Maricel E. Presilla

Maricel E. Presilla is a double threat:  a scholarly chef. Co-owner of Zafra and Cucharamama, two Latin restaurants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Presilla also holds a doctorate in medieval Spanish history from NYU and has spent more than thirty years traveling extensively throughout Latin America.  In Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America (W.W. Norton, $45.00 ) Presilla puts those impressive credential to good use in the form of more than 500 recipes from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean.  “. . . a comprehensible, intelligent, original, and delicious voyage.” — Jacques Pépin.  Presilla has authored and co-authored several cultural cookbooks, including The New Taste of Chocolate:  A cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes and Feliz Nochebuena, Feliz Navidad:  Christmas Feasts of the Hispanic Caribbean

Schedule
Sunday, Nov. 18, 12:00 p.m. Free Add to Schedule

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Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Wine Theatre @ Miami Culinary Institute (415 N.E. Second Avenue)

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