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Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity by Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra is an ambitious book that aims to examine the questions of "...why did we eat what we ate and why do we still eat it...?" (2013: 13). The author attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the socio-cultural context of what people in Puerto Rico ate throughout five hundred years of colonial history...
Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami is an important contribution to both the place-specific literature on Miami as well as the wider fields of migration, transnational and urban studies. The authors, Elizabeth M. Aranda, Sallie Hughes and Elena Sabogal, draw on both qualitative and quantitative data, gathered over a period of 10 years with Caribbean and Latin American immigrants from a range of...