Cuban pork

The Cuban Protein Our Kids Love

The Cuban Protein Our Kids Love

While there are shortages of nearly everything else in Cuba, you can almost always find pork, at your local farmer’s market, freshly slaughtered and hanging from hooks, starting at around $2 per pound. Funnily enough, though, the most common pork dish in Cuba today, el bistec, comes from the word “beef steak”...

Finding the Meaning of "Local" at the Cuban Farmer's Market

Finding the Meaning of "Local" at the Cuban Farmer's Market

I spend about five to six hours of my week buying food for my family, because in Cuba, there is no one-stop supermarket like Safeway or Whole Foods. Even daring to put the words "Whole Foods" and "Cuba" in the same sentence seems comical, or tragic ... or both...