Good Food
Tastes Like Cuba
Many land-owning Cubans fled the country after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. As one of the first Cuban exiles in Southern California in the early '60s, playwright Eduardo Machado longed for his homeland's culinary traditions, especially Cuban coffee. In Tastes Like Cuba , Machado recounts his connection to country and family through food.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readMany land-owning Cubans fled the country after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. As one of the first Cuban exiles in Southern California in the early '60s, playwright Eduardo Machado longed for his homeland's culinary traditions, especially Cuban coffee. In Tastes Like Cuba, Machado recounts his connection to country and family through food.
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