Andy Garcia

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Actor Andy Garcia is someone who loves everything about food. Cooking it, shopping for it, talking about it. And that might be a surprise to some, because Andy Garcia is more known for his roles in iconic films such as The Untouchables, When a Man Loves a Woman, Ocean's 11 and, of course, The Godfather Part III.

But Andy was born into a different life and a different culture in Havana, Cuba. His family escaped Fidel Castro's regime with Andy and his two siblings in tow to join a community of Cuban exiles in Miami. It was in Florida that Andy first remembers falling in love with his native Cuban cuisine, often cooked by his grandmother. Andy discusses all of that, as well as his Cuban-inspired chicken fricassee that he makes when he is looking for that special taste of home.

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0:00.0	That early kitchen, Mama's kitchen was, you know, fried spam with a little bit of sugar
0:12.2	and an egg, powdered eggs and rice, you know, the basics.
0:15.9	But of course, you know, as time passed, then that began to change a little bit.
0:19.9	And it really began to change when my grandmother on my mother's side and my grandfather came
0:26.0	about four or five years later.
0:28.7	Something that my mother knew about cooking came from her mother.
0:31.7	She was the real chef.
0:33.5	My mother was a good cook, but the grandmother was, she was a shit, you know.
0:41.3	Welcome to your Mama's Kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults
0:45.1	by the kitchens we grew up in as kids.
0:48.2	I'm Michelle Norris.
0:50.0	In today's episode, we're talking to someone who loves everything about food, cooking
0:55.0	it, shopping for it, talking about it.
0:57.8	And that might be a bit of a surprise because most of us know Andy Garcia more as an actor
1:04.0	than a chef.
1:05.5	If you've been to the movies in the last 40 years, you've seen Andy Garcia in a slew
1:09.4	of iconic films, The Untouchables, when a man loves a woman, Hoodlum, Hero, Oceans
1:15.2	11, 12 and 13, and of course the Godfather III.
1:19.6	He was nominated for an Academy Award for that one.
1:23.1	Garcia's role as a family man is even more important to him.
1:27.3	He's been married for more than 40 years, and he and his wife have three daughters and
1:31.9	a son, all adults now, and they all love spending time in the kitchen when they're together.
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