The Chefs | Their Books: Maricel Presilla on Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America and Raquel Roque on The Cuban Kitchen
Saturday, Nov. 17, 12:30 p.m., Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor, on N.E. 2nd Ave between 4th and 5th Street)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
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.
Raquel Rábade Roque
Raquel Rábade Roque explores the unique intermingling of Spanish, Portuguese, Arabian, Chinese, and African traditions that combine in Cuban culture and its cuisine. The Cuban Kitchen (Knopf, $20.00) is encyclopedic in its range, but intimate and accessible in tone with more than five hundred recipes for classic, home-style dishes as well as the vividly told stories behind the recipes. Roque is the author of several cookbooks published in Spanish and English, including the forthcoming Cocina Latina: El sabor del mundo latino.
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Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 6100 (Building 6, 1st Floor, on N.E. 2nd Ave between 4th and 5th Street)
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