MiamiHerald.com: Cocina http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Cocina http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Cocina 60 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:52:07 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Cooking at La Casa Blanca with Fiesta Latina guest chef http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1292505.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1292505.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Culinary historians and food bloggers already are poring over the menus of White House functions to draw conclusions about the First Family's tastes and discern the social and political meaning encoded in their food choices. New tastes of Portugal http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1202592.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1202592.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT Stretching from the Minho River on its mountainous northern frontier with Galicia to the dry Algarve in the south, Portugal occupies most of the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. And though it once ruled half of the world, it has enjoyed far less of the culinary limelight than its neighbor, Spain. Jackfruit: It's time to embrace this bounteous behemoth http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1152294.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1152294.html Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:00 EDT The jackfruit is the largest fruit on earth, a wonder of nature. Seeing this native of India's sweltering rain forests growing strong and bountiful in South Florida makes our part of the world feel less tame and more tropical. Sweet taste of mango stirs Cuban childhood memories http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1111212.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/maricel-presilla/story/1111212.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT When I returned to Cuba in 1999 after 29 years, it took me days to gather the courage to drive up to Cuabitas, our old neighborhood in the mountains above Santiago, to see what had become of my mother's childhood home. Divided between two families, it was a shadow of the graceful, mustard-colored mansion I remembered, a happy place surrounded by fruit groves lovingly tended by my grandfather, Santiago Parladé, and his daughters.