Tastes Like Cuba is about what it means to leave behind the only home you know-and become someone else in the process. Machado chronicles the search for his lost home through the powerful memories of meals that have enriched his life. He includes traditional recipes alongside dishes using Velveeta, SPAM, and other processed wonders of 1960s American "cuisine." Machado directs Columbia University's graduate playwriting department and is the artistic director of INTAR, a Latino theater in NY."