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In the introduction to my forthcoming book (see note 1), I muse briefly on how similar Havana (my adopted city) is to New York (my birth city): the garbage and grit; taxi drivers with higher degrees; the self-contained neighborhoods – it all feels very familiar. Another characteristic b...
An Indian restaurant sans raita– So Cuba has its first “Indian” restaurant (note quotation marks people – punctuation has a function!).The space is quite lovely and the staff is attentive, but the food? Like the guy I lost my virginity to, being the first is not enough to win me ...
Furthermore, these experts address the electrical demands of a bustling kitchen. From high-capacity refrigeration units to state-of-the-art cooking appliances, they ensure the kitchen is equipped to handle the fast-paced demands of a restaurant, guaranteeing a seamless workflow for chefs and kitchen...
First of all, the setting of this novel contributes to the Rivera family’s overall perception of what it means to be an American. To start this off, the author chooses a small American city where groups of Latino immigrants with their own language and traditions, lived together in the same...
Members, including some of the biggest names in Hollywood and the business world, enter through On Canon, a separate restaurant on North Canon Drive, and identify themselves to the hostess, who then unlocks a private elevator, which glides soundlessly up a floor to this secret smoking lair. ...
National Cuban Sandwich Day is a day to celebrate the traditional pressed Cuban sandwich and its many variants, which have spread from Tampa, Florida’s Ybor City neighborhood to restaurant menus in all corners of the world. The Cuban sandwich is a history lesson pressed between two pieces of...
I’ll never forget the day, quite a few years ago in Cienfuegos, when my party and I were the only people in a restaurant, and the live band was so loud we could hardly hear ourselves think. I finally asked the band how much I would have to pay them to STOP playing… Same probl...