Comments on: Old Clothes/New Beginnings http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Real Revolutions « Tangerine and Cinnamon http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/#comment-3972 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:16:28 +0000 http://hungrysofia.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-3972 [...] recipe books, Cocina al minuto. This was published in 1958, four years after Cocina criolla, the Bible of Cuban cuisine. Villapol seems to have been a kind of Cuban Delia Smith or Julia Child: she was as interested in [...]

]]> By: Lizbeth http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/#comment-1589 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:55:44 +0000 http://hungrysofia.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-1589 i remember seeing that book in our house!!

i used to call it “ropa sucia” lol… same concept of imagining old clothes for dinner.

i sure hope i can find the book on amazon.
thank you for bringing me back to my childhood

]]> By: Gladys http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/#comment-588 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:49:11 +0000 http://hungrysofia.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-588 On a lark I googled Nitza Villapol not expecting any results. Well, lo and behold I was astounded to find so much info on her. Back in the late sixties, when I was in high school, I found a copy of a Cuban cookbook by a Nitza Villapol. Quite frankly I had no idea who she was since I left Cuba in 1961 at an age when cooking was the least of my concerns. Through the rest of high school and college I kept the book tucked away and forgotten. I had the good fortune of marrying an America who loves Cuban food so I pulled my book and started cooking. Here I am 34 years later thumbing through my no yellowed and falling apart Nitza Villapol book. I would never consider replacing it! It’s one of my prized possesions!

]]> By: Pastelón de Platano Sancochado « hungry sofia http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/#comment-102 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:31:15 +0000 http://hungrysofia.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-102 [...] Plantain Pie I used picadillo clasico as the filling which worked well, but stewed chicken or ropa vieja can also be substituted.  It was also great for lunch the next day with some crumbled queso blanco [...]

]]> By: cami http://hungrysofia.com/2009/04/27/old-clothesnew-beginnings/#comment-6 Wed, 13 May 2009 22:46:49 +0000 http://hungrysofia.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-6 I used to think the same exact thing when I was little and anybody mentioned ‘ropa vieja’.

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