y la historia..te cautiva.
Lo que me fascino, fue el gaspacho...

The Columbia restaurant is the oldest spanish restaurant in the US and the very best! Their succulent recipes are all here and I have tried them. My dishes tasted just like the ones I have eaten there! The history of the restaurant, told in this book, has tears, laughter, romance, tragedy, triumph and above all, and incredible love for this, our country. This book is indispensable in my kitchen and my house is always full of company because of it. Recipes that are many generations old, made with love. Beautiful book.

I visited both the Columbia restaurant in Ybor City and in Clearwater,and I had to buy the book,the recipes are wonderful,specially the seafood dishes,but,what I liked the most was the actual story about Tampa and the family that owns the restaurants,I finished the book feeling like I knew the family since ever!!!.
If you are not around Florida right now,I'll suggest you to buy the book,and if you are in Florida and anywhere close to any of the Columbia restaurants,make a dinner reservation right now!!,and then,buy the book.

This book by Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali: A View from the Corner is a great read. Pacheco is a physician who hooked up with the Ali Circus early on in the ride and who stayed on as Ali's personal physician and adviser for many years of Ali's colorful boxing career.

There are countless books out there on the life of Muhammad Ali and I've read a lot of them, but in my opinion this simple book is one of the best of the lot. Pacheco is currently a color commentator for Showtime Championsip Boxing and he was formerly a boxing commentator for NBC Sports on their telecasts. Pacheco is smart, opinionated, and brutally honest when it comes to his subject - Muhammad Ali. Pacheco let's the reader see how his emotions were torn between staying on as a caregiver for the fighter he obviously loved, or no longer condoning the activities which he felt led to Ali's pitiful health condition today - and eventually resulted in him leaving the Ali camp.

Pacheco has great insight to all the behind the scene hijinks of Ali's colorful life and career and it is a very entertaining book that is honestly told by a man who loves his subject but is not afraid to tell the dark and hurtful truth.

Pacheco truly is the "Fight Doctor" and if you miss this book you miss a great piece of the entire Muhammad Ali puzzle.

I recently read this book.I have to say it held my attenion the whole way through.Even through the end was very sad to me.Since it was about Ali's ''bloody trail'' of defeat.Mr. Pacheco captured all the details about Ali he saw.He even tells about Ali's circus[group of people that traveled with him.]It is a great way to explore Ali's life.It is an excellent book for all ages to read.As I said in the beginning I do not read much.But I have recently taken an intrest in boxing.It is by this I discovered Ali .I am only 15 and in my opinoin it is a great book for any one who is intrested in Ali or a greatperson

I know a good book when I read one. Ybor City Chronicles is a excellent one. This book delivers a fresh new look at Ybor City that no one has ever seen before! It is comical and serious, yet it still gives you an inside look to the city of Ybor. In addition, it provides wonderful profiles of Ybor's most powerful people. Once I read this novel I honestly felt like I knew so much more about the city I grew up in (Tampa/Ybor). I recommend this book to anyone who wants a new perspective of this sun-bathed city.