Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home

Machado, Eduardo

ISBN 10: 1592403212 / ISBN 13: 9781592403219

Verlag: Gotham, 2007

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00098392060

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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 UniversityÂ’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.

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Titel: Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
Verlag: Gotham
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good