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Cocina al minuto / Cooking in a Minute: Selecciones de recetas favoritas / Selections of Favorite Recipes (Spanish Edition)

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If you speak Spanish and you like to cook this is a book for you. It depicts all the Cuban favorites. I had this book for years and in so many moves and changes lost it. I am happy to have found it again (only amazon.com!!!) and now I will be able to recreate all those wonderful dishes.

This is no mere cookbook, it is an institution.

This book defined Cuban home cooking for 1st generation Cuban American children whose parents came to the US from Cuba in search of a better life for their families. Being one of those children, my mom's cooking (with help from this book) forever defined what great home cooked Cuban food should be. It is the touchstone to which I will always compare anyone elses Cuban food. And to be honest, none so far has compared.

"Cocina al Minuto" represents a piece of Cuban culture and tradition in every household. Not nuevo Latino, fusion, or any other interpretation of the moment, these recipes are the bedrock of all great cuban dishes. Cuban family cooking at its best.

My mom passed the book on to me when I moved away and each time I cook a recipe it takes me back to my childhood, watching my mom cook in the house I grew up in. One of my favorites is Frijoles Negros. When I make this dish of dishes, and nail it, as my mom used to make, an incredible sense of joy and pride come over me. It is a little piece of my childhood in a spoon.

I hope to pass these same recipes on to my children and perpetuate the tradition of wonderful Cuban home cooking.

They don't call this "The Cuban Bible" for nothing. My Mom and Aunt brought theirs from Cuba when they immigrated to the United States. It is so worn out they are falling apart. It is the best cookbook I have ever used. The recipes are simply wonderful. Anytime I want to make a special Cuban dish I pull out "Cocina Al Minuto." I have also purchased several copies as gifts for family and friends.

Cristina

The recipes are delicious. They come out exactly the way they are suppose to. One of the best Cuban Recipe books that exist. My parents used to have the same book in Cuba. Too bad it doesn't come in English. I've had several friends ask about it.

I've bought this book 4 times. Each time someone comes over they end up taking it with them! I was born in Cuba and can make almost anything from sushi to apple tartin, but I can't make the Cuban food my mother makes... this book gets me there. It doesn't replace Mom's cooking, but boy does it come close! This is the best investment.

This is a reprint of a Cuban cookbook first published in pre-Castro Cuba in the 1950s. My book was my mom's & it's dilapidated, so I bought this one for my step-daughter. It's a classic and the real "bible" of TRADITIONAL Cuban cuisine.

My mother told me about the author and how she had a cooking show in Cuba. She made the author sound like the Martha Stewart of Havana when it came to the kitchen. I was so happy to find this book, which contains a number of the recipies that my mother used and I thought were gone forever.

Everybody, well almost everybody, loved and remembers with vivid nostaligia the dishes their mother prepared. They may not have all been that great but pleasant memories of days gone by and the passage of time and the realization those days are gone forever sharpens and enhances our memories. Now my mother was indeed a great cook, but don't we all say that?

This book, which should be translated into English, so more can enjoy it, is one of the very best cookbooks of Cuban receipes available. It may be the best.

It will warm the hearts of many a Cuban-American and may even bring a tear to their eyes. It is an opportunity to reconnect. And as importantly it will give them an opportunity to prepare the same dishes their mothers and grandmothers did. Luckily, it is a well-written book, logically presented and easy to understand.

In short, the book is a delight, comprehensive but easy to follow even for non-cooks and a boon to those who love good food. As the saying goes -- "all you have to do is to add love." Enjoy!!

An excellent Cuban Cookbook. All other so-called Cuban cookbooks are either imitations or utter garbage. This is the original and the real-deal. Classic Cuban cooking. You simply can not go wrong with this book.

This Book is excellent, my mom gave me one 20 yrs ago and i used it so much that the pages were missing or faded, now i have a brand new copy to continue my tradition,