Accessing Model From another Controller

I'm pretty new to the MVC paradigm in general, and just started with
this project in CakePHP at my job.

I am trying to figure out how to access a model from another
controller.

From what I have read, normally, you can do that by setting the
Associations (belongsTo, hasMany, etc) in the Models, and then in the
EventsController, $this->Car->find('all') etc.

But it looks like with those relationships, you ahve to setup keys
between each of the tables so that it can join the models together
correctly.

but what if i want to get access from another model that has no
association with the current controller that I am in? There is no
(user hasMany recipes, or recipes belongsTo user, etc) relationships.
There is no relation between the tables. But I would like to display
the data from that table/model into this controller/view.

I am not sure if I am missing something really simple, though I am
sure that I am (sorry for the noob question).

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