1931 Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt

H ow often have we wished, looking back on a delightful trip, that we might live over again, in the quiet of our home: some of the moments which contributed to its charm. The senses of taste and smell have a strange potentiality to revive old me– mories and bring back the past. Thus a faint scent of jasmin will evoke better than a volume of description, the magic fragrance of an Andalusian garden and the taste of guanabana cause one's brain to throb with visions of a white city in the dazzling sunlight bathed by the deep blue waters of a tropical sea. In Europe -in France especially– a celebrated dish has often made the fame of an otherwise unknown town, and people come from afar to sample it. Up to date guide hooks never fail to inform the unsophisticated tourist that such and such a place is renouned for its duck or its bouillabaisse.