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Columbia Restaurant Cookbook Serves Over 100 Years of Spanish Taste & Heritage
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TAMPA, Fla., - - Finally, the secrets of the Columbia Restaurant, the “Gem of Spanish Restaurants,” are available for your own kitchen. Adela Hernandez Gonzmart, owner of the celebrated Columbia before her death in 2001, and Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, television’s “fight doctor,” combine history and rich Mediterranean flavor in The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook. The narrated Columbia cookbook was inspired by the world’s largest Spanish restaurant, and Florida’s oldest restaurant. The Columbia Restaurant is now over 100 years old, and in its four & fifth generations of family ownership.
The foundation for Adela Gonzmart’s passion for food began a century ago, when her grandfather, Casimiro Hernandez, emigrated from Cuba to Tampa, where in 1905 he purchased a café and a legend was born. Casimiro Hernandez became known for dishes that the Columbia still serves such as Spanish bean soup, a hearty creation that combines sausage, garbanzo beans, and potatoes in a beef stock, Arroz con Pollo, a classic chicken and rice dish, an authentic Cuban sandwich, and the “1905” Salad, which originates from when the restaurant first opened, and is dressed with the family’s special blend of fresh garlic, oregano, wine vinegar, lemon juice and Spanish olive oil.
This book is both a history of the elegant and colorful restaurant, which has grown to six locations in Florida, and a cookbook of 178 recipes for signature dishes that made the restaurant famous. Adela Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco reveal the best of these recipes and offer many others to those who desire the aroma, the seasonings, and the glamour of the Columbia in their own home. Published in October 1995, The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook is available at bookstores nationwide for $24.95, or can be purchased from any of the Columbia Restaurant Gift Shops by calling (813) 247-2469, or at our website: www.columbiarestaurant.com.
The Columbia Restaurant is the nation''s largest Spanish restaurant and the oldest restaurant in Florida. Locations include Ybor City in Tampa, St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, the Historic District in St. Augustine, The Pier in St. Petersburg, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida''s town of Celebration, and the Columbia Café at the Tampa Bay History Center. All Columbia Restaurants are owned and operated by 4th and 5th generation members of the founding family.
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