A copy of Cocina al Minuto. Over the years, Villapol revised the cookbook dozens of times, changing her recipes to reflect the realities, and scarcities, of life under the Cuban revolution. They call ...

Despite some officials' attempts to eliminate rice and potatoes from the Cuban table, the reality is that these two staples ...

To help them cope during the years of deprivation that came to be known as the Special Period, many of those Cubans who could turned to television—specifically, to Cocina al Minuto, a wildly popular, ...

For decades, Nitza Villapol hosted Cocina al Minuto, a popular cooking show in Cuba. In the decades after Fidel Castro took power, she adapted her cooking, teaching Cubans how to make do without ...

For over 40 years, Villapol hosted a popular cooking show in Cuba, her recipes shifting to reflect the realities of life under the revolution. No... They call her Cuba's Julia Child. You may not have ...

They call her Cuba's Julia Child. You may not have heard of Nitza Villapol, but for millions of Cubans both on the island and abroad, her recipes offer an abiding taste of home. In many Cuban-American ...