Sunday, May 29, 2011

Cuban Cuisine













I like Cuban cuisine: Cuban sandwiches, plantains, empanadas, rich Cuban-style coffee, anything and everything. Fifty years into this ridiculous US embargo, the popularity of Cuban cuisine is spreading. One can get at it in Fort Worth, in Detroit and Ferndale, in Cary, North Carolina, and in Durham, just to give a handful of examples. Good! It costs no more than fast food, so it's really just a matter of preference in the 21st century. Now how about some Cuban cigars legally available in the USA?

How about you -- are their any types of cuisine you like that were rare or little known when you were growing up but that you now can find without too much trouble?  

Today's Rune: Separation (Reversed).

5 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

There's actually a place here in nearby Covington that has great Cuban sandwiches.

Nina K. Orlovskaya said...

I'll check out Ferndale...

Johnny Yen said...

Ethiopian/Eritrean food. Big bonus is that many places make the pancake-like bread that is a staple of those cuisines out of tef grain, rather than wheat, which I cannot have because of having celiac disease.

Erik Donald France said...

Cheers all -- merci !~~

Lana Gramlich said...

Cuban sandwich...Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Never even HEARD of them 'til I moved to NOLA! So many years wasted! *LOL*