Wow! My Cuban-American Recipes and Stories : A Cuban-Born Grandmother Cooks f...

by Teresita Shelton

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Wow! My Cuban-American Recipes and Stories : A Cuban-Born Grandmother Cooks for Her Miami-Born Grandchildren, Paperback by Shelton, Teresita, ISBN 1490503706, ISBN-13 9781490503707, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US THIS IS VOLUME #1 OF A 3-VOLUME and Seafood dishes, Appetizers, Dining Table, Stories and more!Teresita Shelton was born In Havana, Cuba in 1940 of Irish and Scottish ancestors. She attended the University of Villanova in Havana and received an Associate Degree in Business. When she was only 17 years of age she was emancipated (something very unusual at that time) by her father Dr. Raul M. Shelton, to allow her to open her own fabric store which she named “Capricho”. She has worked almost every single day of her life since then. In 1961 she came to Miami as a newlywed to join her father and two sisters, Georgina “Yoyi” and Susana who had arrived a couple of months earlier fleeing the Communist Revolution in Cuba. Her mother and the rest of the family joined them in exile later. In Miami she started working right away. Her first job was at the Miami laundry Company. She landed the job after answering an ad seeking an Addressograph machine expert, something she claimed she was even though she had never heard the word before. But her passion is cooking. She had been cooking for her family since her mentor in the kitchen, Caridad, the family cook, remained behind in Cuba. That passion is now 53 years old and still growing. Cooking for her siblings and parents fir

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781490503707
• Condition: Fine

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