The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook (eBook)

Adela Hernandez Gonzmart, Ferdie Pacheco (Autoren)

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2023 | 2. Auflage
324 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7311-8 (ISBN)

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In this narrated cookbook, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco memorialize their passion for the Columbia, the nation’s largest Spanish restaurant and Florida’s oldest restaurant. This special 115th anniversary edition of the The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook features a touching foreword by Andrea Gonzmart Williams, granddaughter of Adela.

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In this narrated cookbook, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco memorialize their passion for the Columbia, the nation’s largest Spanish restaurant and Florida’s oldest restaurant. This special 115th anniversary edition of The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook features a touching foreword by Andrea Gonzmart Williams, granddaughter of Adela.

Adela’s affair with food is a family legacy that began in the early twentieth century, when her grandfather Casimiro Hernandez emigrated from Cuba to Tampa. In 1905, Casimiro purchased a small corner café, where he started selling soup, sandwiches, and coffee. Out of gratitude to his new country, he named his small café Columbia, after the personification of America in the popular song “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean.” Prophetically, he added this motto to his sign: “The Gem of All Spanish Restaurants.”

Casimiro became known for dishes that the Columbia still serves today—Spanish bean soup, his hearty creation that combines sausage, garbanzo beans, and potatoes in a beef stock; arroz con pollo, a classic chicken and rice dish; an authentic Cuban sandwich; and the “1905” Salad®, dressed with the family’s special blend of fresh garlic, oregano, wine vinegar, lemon juice, and Spanish olive oil.

This anniversary edition of The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook is a history of the elegant family restaurant, which now boasts multiple locations across Florida, and a delicious cookbook of 178 recipes that make them famous. It is also the biography of Adela, the heart of the Columbia, with commentary by Ferdie Pacheco—Muhammad Ali’s “Fight Doctor,” Ybor City’s famous raconteur, and Adela’s childhood friend. Adela and Ferdie have since passed, but this book remains a testament to their love of good food and their joy in sharing the aroma, the seasonings, and the glamour of the Columbia.

Inhalt

Contents





List of Recipes in English ix



Lista de Recetas en Espanol xv



Foreword to the Anniversary Edition xxi



Preface xxv



One The Spanish-Cuban Heritage of Florida Cooking 1



Two Breakfast at the Columbia 5



Three Casimiro I: The Romance Begins 26



Four Casimiro II: The Golden Years 56



Five The Columbia Family 83



Six Don Quixote Gets Dressed Up 134



Seven When the Violin Chased the Piano 154



Eight Adela and Cesar, Newlyweds on the Road 187



Nine Return to the Columbia 214



Ten Children 255



Eleven Wine 266



Twelve The Columbia Saga Continues 272



Glossary 275



Index 278

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 51 b/w photos, 176 recipes, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Schlagworte: arroz con pollo • award winning recipes • Beans • Carne • carnitas • chicken recipe • Columbia Restaurant • Cookbook • entrees • famous restaurants • fish • Florida culture • Florida's oldest restaurant • friccasse • Historic Restaurant • popular eatery • pork • regional cooking • ropa vieja • salad • Seafood • soups • Spanish Cooking • spanish recipes • Steak • stews • Tampa History • tostones • Traditional
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-7311-1 / 0813073111
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-7311-8 / 9780813073118