Two years, two kids, and everything made from scratch in Havana, Cuba -- where rum is aplenty but everything else is not! Follow my adventures feeding my family...
The number of different types of bananas in Cuba and their specific uses are bewildering. There are bananas that are eaten raw, the only way we know how to eat them in the U.S. There are bananas for making plantain chips, tostones (a kind of biscuit-like dish made from bananas) ...
I was despondent not long after I arrived in Havana. People laughed when I told them I was a food writer. “Boy, you’ve come to the wrong place!” they replied.