Summary
"Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana c... Full description
- Prologue. A black-and-white feast
- Change
- The hated sea
- Danger of a black city
- Cecilia's fire and sugar
- Beyond the wall
- The monster
- The death it has given us
- The twenty-six-flavor revolution
- The mulata returns
- The sound of an African city
- Frozen in the tropics
- Sunny side up
- How to argue in Havana
- The nocout.