Download or read book Miami Connections Liberation Part Two written by C. M. Kent and published by Kent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can time heal everything? Enrique’s life is about to change big time. After sinking into oblivion the previous year, he is en route to steering things back on track... or so he might think. As always, something is waiting around the corner to blow everything to pieces once again. Will this ever end? Will he and his beautiful family survive their world being turned upside down once again, or will this be the end for all of them? Sometimes money can’t solve every problem or challenge life throws at you, and Enrique Cruz is no stranger to that. With a love so strong, it has weathered every storm they have endured, and now with their fourth child on the way, Kristie and Enrique’s bond is more robust than they could ever imagine. But one thing Enrique is still struggling with is feeling free and at peace after discovering his father’s secret cartel lifestyle. Will his demons ever leave him alone? One demon that refuses to go away is his father, José Cruz. With lies, deceit, corruption, drug trafficking, psychopathic torture methods, and murder under his belt, this man has decided to turn over a new leaf. Pain, grief, and finally sickness have made José see things very differently, but what does that mean for everyone else in his life, related or not? Enrique’s faith teaches him to forgive, but can life really be that simple? No. No, it can’t. Nothing in Enrique’s life is ever simple when it comes to his father. And so his journey continues... Readers discretion is advised. This book contains strong language, violence, and scenes of a sexual nature from the very beginning. This book is part of a series. ​​​​​​​ The Miami Connections Novel Series Lose yourself in the perfect cocktail of passion, love, and romance, combined with cartels, rivalry, and deceit, based in the sun-drenched city of Miami. 1. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part One 2. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part Two 3. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part One 4. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part Two 5. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part One 6. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part Two 7. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part One 8. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part Two 9. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part One 10. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part Two Also by C. M. Kent The Love Novel Series Float away with the dreamy romantic prequel to the Miami Connections series. 1. Love & Destiny 2. Falling 3. Truly, Madly, Deeply 4. Heavenly 5. Love & Heartbreak 6. Bound 2 Love 7. Crazy in Love 8. Just Us 9. Love & Devastation 10. Torn Apart

Download or read book Disposable City written by Mario Alejandro Ariza and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world. In Disposable City, Miami resident Mario Alejandro Ariza shows us not only what climate change looks like on the ground today, but also what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and how that future has been shaped by the city's racist past and present. As politicians continue to kick the can down the road and Miami becomes increasingly unlivable, real estate vultures and wealthy residents will be able to get out or move to higher ground, but the most vulnerable communities, disproportionately composed of people of color, will face flood damage, rising housing costs, dangerously higher temperatures, and stronger hurricanes that they can't afford to escape. Miami may be on the front lines of climate change, but the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S. -- and the rest of the world -- far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful portrait of both a vibrant city with a unique culture and the social, economic, and psychic costs of climate change that call us to act before it's too late.

Download or read book Welcome to Fairyland written by Julio Capó Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean--particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti--to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.

Download or read book The Orchard written by David Hopen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST A Recommended Book From: The New York Times * Good Morning America * Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature * The New York Post * Alma * The Millions * Book Riot A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers’ dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life’s pleasures. When the academy’s golden boy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the school’s most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and defiant—especially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the shadow of his mother’s death. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in unconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and careening toward a perilous future—one in which the traditions of their faith are repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends. Mesmerizing and playful, heartrending and darkly romantic, The Orchard probes the conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of youth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed desires.

Download or read book Hotel Scarface written by Roben Farzad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface... In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove’s Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty, rock stars, and models flocked to the hotel’s club to order bottle after bottle of Dom and to snort lines alongside narcos, hit men, and gunrunners, all while marathon orgies burned upstairs in elaborate fantasy suites. Amid the boatloads of powder and cash reigned the new kings of Miami: three waves of Cuban immigrants vying to dominate the trafficking of one of the most lucrative commodities ever known to man. But as the kilos—and bodies—began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement. Based on exclusive interviews and never-before-seen documents, Hotel Scarface is a portrait of a city high on excess and greed, an extraordinary work of investigative journalism offering an unprecedented view of the rise and fall of cocaine—and the Mutiny—in Miami.

Download or read book Miami Babylon written by Gerald Posner and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in all its neon-colored, cocaine-fueled glory, is the never-before-told story of the making of Miami Beach. Gerald Posner, author of the groundbreaking investigations Case Closed and Why America Slept, has uncovered the hair-raising political-financial-criminal history of the Beach and reveals a tale that, in the words of one character, "makes Scarface look like a documentary." From its beginnings in the 1890s, the Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers. During Prohibition, Al Capone had to muscle into its bootlegging and gambling businesses. After December 1941, when the Beach was the training ground for half a million army recruits, even the war couldn't stop the party. After a short postwar boom, the city's luck gave out. The big hotels went bankrupt, the crime rate rose, and the tourists moved on to Disney World and the Caribbean. Even after the Beach hosted both national political conventions in 1972, nobody would have imagined that this sandy backwater of run-down hotels and high crime would soon become one of the country's most important cultural centers. But in 1981, 125,000 Cubans arrived by the boatload. The empty streets of South Beach, lined with dilapidated Art Deco hotels, were about to be changed irrevocably by the culture of money that moved in behind cocaine and crime. Posner takes us inside the intertwined lives of politicians, financiers, nightclub owners, and real estate developers who have fed the Beach's unquenchable desire for wealth, flash, and hype: the German playboy who bought the entire tip of South Beach with $100 million of questionable money; the mayoral candidate who said, "If you can't take their money, drink their liquor, mess with their women, and then vote against them, you aren't cut out for politics"; the Staten Island thug who became king of the South Beach nightclubs only to have his empire unravel and saved himself by testifying against the mob; the campaign manager who calls himself the "Prince of Darkness" and got immunity from prosecution in a fraud case by cooperating with the FBI against his colleagues; and the former Washington, D.C., developer who played hardball with city hall and became the Beach's first black hotel owner. From the mid-level coke dealers and their suitcases of cash to the questionable billions that financed the ocean-view condo towers, the Beach has seen it all. Posner's singular report tells the real story of how this small urban beach community was transformed into a world-class headquarters for American culture within a generation. It is a story built by dreamers and schemers. And a steroid-injected cautionary tale.

Download or read book Of Women and Salt written by Gabriela Garcia and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award, She Reads Best of 2021 Awards • FINALIST for the 2022 Southern Book Prize • LONGLISTED for Crook’s Corner Book Prize • NOMINEE for 2021 GoodReads Choice Award in Debut Novel and Historical Fiction A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots.

Download or read book Red Brick Magic written by Terence Moore and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miami University in Oxford, Ohio is recognized for its beauty, highlighted by the red brick throughout its grounds. Poet Robert Frost even called it "the prettiest campus ever there was." It has a nationally acclaimed business school, and it has spent the last decade providing more CEOs of Fortune 500 companies with undergraduate Miami Ohio degrees than any other. Yet, the best kept secret for those inside the Miami Ohio family is The Cradle of Coaches, and the astounding track record over the last century of producing some of the greatest coaches, managers, and sports executives in sports history.In Red Brick Magic: Sean McVay, John Harbaugh and Miami University's Cradle of Coaches, Miami Ohio alum and pioneering sports journalist Terence Moore explores this unparalleled sports leadership legacy, from Weeb Ewbank, Paul Brown, Ara Parseghian, and Bo Schembechler to John McVay, John Harbaugh, Sean McVay, and everyone in between.Highlighted by Sean McVay's Super Bowl LVI win with the Los Angeles Rams &– the record fourth NFL championship captured by a team coached by a Miami Ohio alum &– Moore tells the inside story of how a mid-major sports school in the Mid-American Conference has evolved into an industry trailblazer, and a true powerhouse when it comes to producing leaders and thinkers helping shape the past, present, and future of the sports world.

Download or read book Miami Connections Redemption Part Two written by C. M. Kent and published by Kent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some souls are beyond redemption. As Enrique continues on his journey to recovery, he and his wife Kristie are more in love and stronger than ever, but for some reason, they can’t seem to catch a break. Every time they think they can relax and live happily ever after, something relating to Enrique’s father, José, comes back to haunt them. With their marriage on the line due to feelings of betrayal and lack of loyalty, an old demon swoops in and takes hold of one of them once again. Will the seemingly perfect couple manage to pull through these turbulent times, or has the pressure and effects of José’s sordid lifestyle finally got the better of them? Will they be the ones who ultimately suffer for his sins, or will José finally pay the price for his heinous crimes? Readers discretion is advised. This book contains strong language, violence, and scenes of a sexual nature from the very beginning. This book is part of a series. ​​​​​​​ The Miami Connections Novel Series Lose yourself in the perfect cocktail of passion, love, and romance, combined with cartels, rivalry, and deceit, based in the sun-drenched city of Miami. 1. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part One 2. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part Two 3. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part One 4. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part Two 5. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part One 6. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part Two 7. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part One 8. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part Two 9. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part One 10. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part Two Also by C. M. Kent The Love Novel Series Float away with the dreamy romantic prequel to the Miami Connections series. 1. Love & Destiny 2. Falling 3. Truly, Madly, Deeply 4. Heavenly 5. Love & Heartbreak 6. Bound 2 Love 7. Crazy in Love 8. Just Us 9. Love & Devastation 10. Torn Apart

Download or read book This Is 18 written by Jessica Bennett and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning celebration of girlhood around the world, from the New York Times Featuring and photographed by young women, This Is 18 is an immersive look at what it means to be on the cusp of adulthood around the world and across cultures. Twenty-two empowering and uniquely personal profiles, expanded from the New York Times interactive feature and curated by Gender Editor Jessica Bennett, with Sandra Stevenson, Anya Strzemien, and Sharon Attia, give teen readers a rare glimpse at the realities and interests of their contemporaries. With stunning photography and a gifty design, This Is 18 is a perfect tribute to girlhood for readers of all ages.

Download or read book Miami Connections Redemption Part One written by C. M. Kent and published by Kent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some souls are beyond redemption. As Enrique continues on his journey to recovery, he and his wife Kristie are more in love and stronger than ever, but for some reason, they can’t seem to catch a break. Every time they think they can relax and live happily ever after, something relating to Enrique’s father, José, comes back to haunt them. With their marriage on the line due to feelings of betrayal and lack of loyalty, an old demon swoops in and takes hold of one of them once again. Will the seemingly perfect couple manage to pull through these turbulent times, or has the pressure and effects of José’s sordid lifestyle finally got the better of them? Will they be the ones who ultimately suffer for his sins, or will José finally pay the price for his heinous crimes? Readers discretion is advised. This book contains strong language, violence, and scenes of a sexual nature from the very beginning. This book is part of a series. ​​​​​​​ The Miami Connections Novel Series Lose yourself in the perfect cocktail of passion, love, and romance, combined with cartels, rivalry, and deceit, based in the sun-drenched city of Miami. 1. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part One 2. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part Two 3. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part One 4. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part Two 5. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part One 6. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part Two 7. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part One 8. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part Two 9. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part One 10. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part Two Also by C. M. Kent The Love Novel Series Float away with the dreamy romantic prequel to the Miami Connections series. 1. Love & Destiny 2. Falling 3. Truly, Madly, Deeply 4. Heavenly 5. Love & Heartbreak 6. Bound 2 Love 7. Crazy in Love 8. Just Us 9. Love & Devastation 10. Torn Apart

Download or read book Waiting For Snow In Havana written by Carlos Eire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.

Download or read book Miami written by Jan Nijman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a subtropical city and the southernmost metropolitan area in the United States, Miami has always lured both visitors and migrants from throughout the Americas. During its first half-century they came primarily from the American North, then from the Latin South, and eventually from across the hemisphere and beyond. But if Miami's seductive appeal is one half of the story, the other half is that few people have ever ended up staying there. Today, by many measures, Miami is one of the most transient of all major metropolitan areas in America. Miami: Mistress of the Americas tells the story of an urban transformation, perfectly timed to coincide with the surging forces of globalization. Author Jan Nijman connects different historical episodes and geographical regions to illustrate how transience has shaped the city to the present day, from the migrant labor camps in south Miami-Dade to the affluent gated communities along Biscayne Bay. Transience offers opportunities, connecting business flows and creating an ethnically hybrid workforce, and also poses challenges: high mobility and population turnover impede identification of Miami as home. According to Nijman, Miami is "mistress of the Americas" because of its cultural influence and economic dominance at the nexus of north and south. Nijman likens the city itself to a hotel; people check in, go about their business or pleasure, then check out. Locals, born and raised in the area, make up only one-fifth of the population. Exiles, those who have come to Miami as a temporary haven due to political or economic necessity, are typically yearning to return to their homeland. Mobiles, the affluent and well educated, who reside in Miami's most prized neighborhoods, are constantly on the move. As a social laboratory in urban change and human relationships in a high-speed, high-mobility era, Miami raises important questions about identity, citizenship, place-attachment, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism. As such, it offers an intriguing window onto our global urban future.

Download or read book Miami Connections written by C M Kent and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will there ever be peace? After a perilous few weeks of uncertainty following Enrique's life-threatening car crash, he and his wife, Kristie, are looking forward to getting their life back to normal. With his miraculous recovery, things have already started to heat up between the passionate couple, even before Enrique is discharged from the hospital. Their strength as a couple and love for each other keeps growing with each passing day. Nothing can stop them now... or can it? The downfall of a high-ranking government official and his associates is nearly complete. The DEA's case hangs in the balance as a new dark, and sinister force reaches out from beyond the shores of the United States. Who is creating this new dark shadow, and what impact will it have on the outcome of the case? Will it jeopardize José and Gutiérrez's chances of freedom and the safety of Enrique and his family? With new twists and turns, José Cruz relentlessly continues his quest for forgiveness from his son. He wants his family back, and is willing to do anything to achieve this. With this new information, will Enrique be able to move beyond his father's indiscretions? How will the extended family react to the news that José isn't dead but very much alive and well? How will he explain away his five-year absence? Is there yet another twist to the lives of the young couple and their family? Is the peace they have so desperately been searching for, destined to be kept just out of reach? Even when you have a life most can only dream of, there is always something missing. Sometimes beaches and sunsets are not enough. Does this chapter finally have the happy ending they all have been searching for, for so long? Readers discretion is advised. This book contains strong language, violence, and scenes of a sexual nature from the very beginning. This is part of a series. The Miami Connections Novel Series Lose yourself in the perfect cocktail of passion, love, and romance, combined with cartels, rivalry, and deceit, based in the sun-drenched city of Miami. 1. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part One 2. Miami Connections: Secrets and Lies. Part Two 3. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part One 4. Miami Connections: The Domino Effect. Part Two 5. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part One 6. Miami Connections: Redemption. Part Two 7. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part One 8. Miami Connections: Liberation. Part Two 9. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part One 10. Miami Connections: Peace, Love, & Retribution. Part Two Also by C. M. Kent The Love Novel Series Float away with the dreamy romantic prequel to the Miami Connections series. 1. Love & Destiny 2. Falling 3. Truly, Madly, Deeply 4. Heavenly 5. Love & Heartbreak 6. Bound 2 Love 7. Crazy in Love 8. Just Us

Download or read book Nine Island written by Jane Alison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 “Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, “Sir Gold,” and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid’s magical stories about the transformations caused by Eros. “A woman who wants, a man who wants nothing. These two have stalked the world for thousands of years,” she thinks. When not ruminating over her sexual past and current fantasies, in the company of only her aging cat, J observes the comic, sometimes steamy goings–on among her faded–glamour condo neighbors. One of them, a caring nurse, befriends her, eventually offering the opinion that “if you retire from love . . . then you retire from life.”

Download or read book Connections Workbook written by Jill S. Levenson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook accompanies Treating Nonoffending Parents in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Connections for Family Safety. It features many useful checklists, illustrative diagrams, and spaces to record thoughts and feelings as the client works through the process.

Download or read book The Cuban Table written by Ana Sofia Pelaez and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources. Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective of their secrets. Content with a private kind of renown, they demonstrate an elusive turn of hand that transforms simple recipes into bright and memorable meals that draw family and friends to their tables time and again. More than just a list of ingredients or series of steps, Cuban cooks' tricks and touches hide in plain sight, staying within families or being passed down in well-worn copies of old cookbooks largely unread outside of the Cuban community. Here you'll find documented recipes for everything from iconic Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish accents and African ingredients, accompanied by details about historical context and insight into cultural nuances. More than a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a celebration of Cuban cooking, culture and cuisine. With stunning photographs throughout and over 110 deliciously authentic recipes this cookbook invites you into one of the Caribbean's most interesting and vibrant cuisines.