Customer Reviews

Three Guys from Miami Cook Cuban

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I first became aware of the Three Guys from Miami several years ago while searching for ropa vieja recipes. Their website is fun, and has great recipes. This cookbook is an extension of that website. It's written in a fun, chatty style, the recipes are easy to follow, and it includes wonderful photographs of Cuban food and of different places around Miami. There's also a glossary in the back that tells you, among other things, why to call a certain produce item "fruta bomba." This is by far my favorite Cuban cookbook, and I have several. I hope they do a sequel with the pig roast, the Cuban Noche Buena and New Year's customs...I love these guys!

I'm the furthest thing from Cuban, but I've always loved the culture and the food. This book delivers both! With directions so simple anyone can do it, the recipes in here are great and varied...make a few things for snacks or more intricate dishes for full-blown dinner parties. I don't even cook that well and the few things I've tried have come out wonderfully...and believe me, that says a lot. A pleasure to read and more of a pleasure to feast. Great job, Miami Guys!

If you like the real "homemade cuban food", like I do, this book is a MUST HAVE; all recipies are from real down to earth homemade cuban food, written in a way that even a child can follow the instructions and cook a delicious cuban plate; so if you want to cook and invite your friends to eat real cuban food, and impress them...buy the book today; you will be glad you did it

Beautiful book containing 100 recipes that have been tested and
perfected through the years by these three brothers-in-law who also happen to be great friends. easy on the eye, with well written and clean looking pages most containing beautiful color photographs of the food, the authors and Miami. In a congenial and chatty way, these three friends discuss each recipe in the book using short and sometimes funny "sound-bites".

All the traditional Cuban recipes are included, some with an updated twist. They have also included recipes for other Latino food that has been quickly assimilated into the Cuban recipe repertoire such as the very rich and sinfully wonderful Nicaraguan Tres Leches Cake and the Colombian Arepas, a cornmeal and cheese delicacy that has become quite a popular snack to munch on during the many Miami street festivals.

I must say that Publisher's Weekly just doesn't get it. Most cookbooks are as dull as reading an encyclopedia article or a chartered accountancy advert. The witty dialogue here is what gives the book its charm and makes it a pleasurable read with touches of Monty Python and Graham Kerr. I found the book delightful, even before I had the opportunity to try the recipes out at home. Once I did, I fell in love with the delicious flavours of Cuba. The recipes are so easy to make and the Three Guys self-deprecating humour and "let's have fun in the kitchen" spirit gave me just the confidence I needed. Any time you try to do something different, there's a least one poor sod who doesn't catch on.

This book is not only fun to read, it has excellent recipes. I have never tried cuban food before getting this book, but after trying recipe after recipe,I'm hooked!! I have had this book for a little over a month, and have had at least one meal a week from it! The Cuban Beef Stew is superb with such a depth of flavor, you will want to make it over and over again. The Cuban Bread scared me at first with its two pages of steps, but it is great....especially with the Cuban Beef Stew!!! The salad with avocados and fresh pineapple is great with fish. The Stuffed Green Peppers are full of flavor. So get this book!! You won't regret it! Buy lots of cumin, garlic and olive oil and you are set. This week I think I will try the Three Milk Cake!

I used to acquire cookbooks for a major publishing company, including some that became bestsellers. This is by far one of my favorite cookbooks, and I didn't have anything to do with it! I have made two types of empanadas, grilled marinated skirt steak, chimichurri sauce, Cuban meatballs and sauce, kids' punch, mojitos (of course!), and Cuban salad out of this book. Next to every single one, I have noted "Excellent & delicious!" One thing I really love about this book, besides the great taste of everything I've tried, is that the proportions all come out well -- for example, the empanada dough recipe makes as many empanadas as it says (easily), and the filling recipe makes just the right amount of filling for the dough recipe. Also, there are not a lot of crazy amounts called for -- I wasn't left with 1/3 of an onion and 4/5 of a something else. I threw a party using recipes from this book plus a few of my own, and everyone raved about the food. One guest -- a very good cook -- literally made me show her the book in my kitchen, wrote down the title, and bought it the next day!

First, to the reviewer who complained about a recipe being more complicated in the book than the one on the Three Guy's website, there is NO recipe for "Carne con Papas" in this book! They do have a recipe for "Carne Guisado" and yes it does have more ingredients than "Carne con Papas" because it is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT recipe.

I have been cooking Cuban food all of my life, as my mother did before me. I never believed that anyone could tell me how to cook Cuban food. I have to admit that the Three Guys from Miami have taught me a few things. Several of their recipes are better than mine. I bought this book not just for the recipes. As someone who misses Miami very much here in Kansas City, it's great to see all of the Miami scenery. And yes, I love the pictures of the Three Guys. It's their funny personalities that sell the book! I also bought this book because I appreciate their efforts to promote the culture of my homeland.

Most first cookbooks have no photography at all, or just a small section of photos, and certainly not a photo of every dish. I too can't wait for their next book.

Like many, I first came to know the Three Guys through their website. This book is a collection of many of the recipes they have presented on their website over the years. Each year they have improved and refined the recipes, a long process that has finally resulted in this great book.

The Three Guys have handpicked 100 of their BEST recipes for inclusion in this volume.

Three Guys from Miami Cook Cuban is a fun, and easy-to-follow guide that will let even inexperienced home cooks turn out some great Cuban meals. The recipes are easy to prepare and you'll actually enjoy the entire process.

The book is laced with plenty of Three Guys' humor and a running commentary. The Three Guys from Miami have made several appearances on the Food Network, the Travel Channel, and Public Television. I have become a big fan!

I am looking forward to their next book with 100 MORE great Cuban recipes!

By far the most comprehensive, easy to understand, enjoyable and well frankly, mouth watering cookbook I have ever owned...and I collect cookbooks. This book really gets to the heart of Cuban cooking and puts you smack dab in the middle of Miami's Calle 8-Little Havana-the heart of free Cuba here in the US. A DEFINITE READ AND A MUST HAVE FOR ALL KITCHENS!