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  • The Cuban Sandwich

    A History in Layers

    A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwichFlorida Book Awards, Gold Medal for CookingCreative Loafing Tampa Bay Best of the Bay Awards, “Best Approach to Pressing Matters”How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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    The Cuban Sandwich

    A History in Layers

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwichFlorida Book Awards, Gold Medal for CookingHow did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafés of Havana, from where it evolved into a dainty high-class hors d'oeuvre and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Tex-Mex Cookbook

    A History in Recipes and Photos

    by Robb Walsh ...
    Join Texas food writer Robb Walsh on a grand tour complete with larger-than-life characters, colorful yarns, rare archival photographs, and a savory assortment of more than 100 recipes for crispy, crunchy Tex-Mex foods.From the Mexican pioneers of the sixteenth century, who first brought horses and cattle to Texas, to the Spanish mission era when cumin and garlic were introduced, to the 1890s when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

    The Biography of a Cause

    by Tom Gjelten ...
    In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Trading with the Enemy

    A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba

    by Tom Miller ...
    Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries."Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Taco USA

    How Mexican Food Conquered America

    The nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! presents a fascinating and tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisine’s tremendous popularity in el Norte.Nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano presents a tasty trip through the history ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spanish Lessons 1-4: Numbers, Colors/Shapes, Animals & Food

    by Felipe Soto ...
    Series series Easy-Peasy Spanish for Kids Series
    These flashcard books are designed with large, engaging pictures to help your little one learn Spanish - one fun, easy lesson at a time.  This collection includes: - Spanish Lesson 1: Numbers 1 to 20 - Spanish Lesson 2: Colors & Shapes - Spanish Lesson 3: Animals - Spanish Lesson 4: Foods & Table Setting Each lesson has everything you need to teach your child these four Spanish lessons including ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ask a Mexican

    From award-winning columnist and favorite talking head Gustavo Arellano, comes this explosive, irreverent, smart, and hilarious Los Angeles Times bestseller.¡Ask a Mexican! is a collection of questions and answers from Gustavo Arellano that explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fingerprint Guide : Bogota, Colombia

    We decided to do this guide because life is simple and so should travel guides. It is an on going guide that will be up date every year with the coolest places, plans and venues to stay in the city. It is a simple but complete guide to made by a fellow traveler for travelers. We included tips and other fun stuff! We hope you enjoy it, love from our team! Fingerprint guide!We included the two or ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planet Taco:A Global History of Mexican Food

    A Global History of Mexican Food

    As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand-held food--and Mexican food more broadly--become so ubiquitous?In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Ferran

    The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food

    The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities.More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) ... Read more

    $6.99 USD