1931 Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt

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Casino do not differ much from those one would find in corresponding establish– ments in New York or Paris. In the homes of wealthy Cuban families French dishes alternate with national ones, forming a most happy alliance. This little book, therefore, has no pretention of bei~g an exhaustive treatise, not even a general guide to the Cuban table. The mode of preparing excellent cosmopolitan dishes may be found elsewhere. I shall limit myself to indicate the typical ones of the country, many of which are well worthy of being known and relished by a wider public. It will surely be a pleasure for a hostess to give her guests a surprise,, presenting them with an exotic dish right from the Caribbean, offering them a culinary novelty, which in these days is a prize-indeed a rare and coveted prize. I do not refer to the strange concoct– ions evolved by eccentric iconoclasts, breaking every dietetic law and ~asting to the ~ind all traditions, such as we behold in some incongruous and barbaric salads~ nor can we call a nov.elty futuristic combinations like those M.arinetti used