I wish I could say that I learned to cook Cuba’s classic dishes – among them, rice and black beans (called, cheekily, moros y cristianos – the Moors and the Christians), ropa vieja and rice pudding – at the elbow of my mother-in-law, but that would be a lie. Although practically every good story I […]
Julie Schwietert Collazo
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‘Prince of Los Cocuyos’: Richard Blanco’s hyphenated Miami youth
Memoir of growing up Cuban-American by America’s first Latino/immigrant/gay inaugural poet
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In ‘Eating Wildly,’ Ava Chin learns life lessons through foraging
Memoirist and cook learns to see only what’s in front of her
