In the book “Tastes Like Cuba” Machado uses recipes and the discussion of food to evoke his longing for his homeland. Machado and his families are from Cuba before the Cuban Revolution. During that time, they supported Fidel Castro in overthrowing Fulgencio Batista. When Fidel Castro took power, Machado’s grandfather’s bus company was also taken away from him and because of that their family supported in United State to overthrow Fidel Castro which failed (Machado 46). After the Cuban Missile Crisis the family went into exile to the U.S. When they are in the U.S. they are not as welcome because of those anti communism movement and now the only thing that reminds him of home back in Cuba is food.
In California, the only thing that makes him
In California, the only thing that makes him