Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile’s Hunger for Home, by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich

“In his eccentric and often affecting memoir “Tastes Like Cuba,” Machado, a noted Cuban-American playwright, tells the story of his rootless, self-invented life, using food as his connecting thread. After his grandfather boasts that his arroz con pollo “will taste just like Cuba,” Machado thinks: “How do you make a meal taste like a place? I should have asked him directly. Instead, I spent the rest of my life looking for the answer.” “Tastes Like Cuba” deals with Machado’s struggle to come to terms with the painful and confusing contradictions of exile. It also has a lot of great Cuban recipes. (The garlic chicken with sour oranges is killer.)” Read the review at the New York Times.