TASTES LIKE CUBA: An Exile's Hunger for Home

Machado, Eduardo and Domitrovich, Michael

ISBN 10: 1592403212 / ISBN 13: 9781592403219

Published by Gotham, New York, 2007

About this Item

357pp. Machado 'turns his talents to memoir, recounting his life as an exile, in which recipes represent not only the lost comfort of home but the best chance to get it back'. [loc 509/1] Advance Uncorrected Proof, First Edition.

Seller Inventory # 30046

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TASTES LIKE CUBA: An Exile's Hunger for Home
• Publisher: Gotham, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592403212
• ISBN 13: 9781592403219
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • World Politics
  • Cookbooks

About this title

Synopsis

The playwright-author of Havana and The Cook discusses his life as an exile and revealing visit to his home in Cuba, in a recipe-laden memoir that features such traditional dishes as arroz con pollo and Cuban roast pork as well as a variety of processed-food favorites. 30,000 first printing.

About the Author

Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba in 1953 and came to the United States on the Peter Pan Flights in 1961. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Machado has captivated audiences with over 40 plays including “The Cook,” “Havana is Waiting,” and “The Floating Island Plays.” He has been produced off-Broadway and at regional theatres in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. For sixteen years he taught in Columbia University’s Graduate Playwriting Program, serving as Head of the program for the last ten. He is the Visiting Arts Professor in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University and the Artistic Director of INTAR, a Latino theater in New York which has been producing plays for nearly four decades.
Michael Domitrovich was born and raised in a family of restaurateurs and has worked with food all his life. As a playwright his work has been produced off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. His play “Artfuckers” premiered to sold out houses in 2007 and will open off-Broadway in early 2008. He was commissioned to write the book of a musical about the record industry called Breach, with music by David Nehls (The Great American Trailer Park Musical), to open in Fall 2008. He is currently writing a play about young NYC chefs, as well as a novel (with recipes) about the waitstaff at a seasonal restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.