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Celebrating Thanksgiving in Cuba with Pumpkin Flan

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Celebrating Thanksgiving in Cuba with Pumpkin Flan

I’m making this dessert for Thanksgiving to give my turkey dinner a Cuban twist. After all, butternut squash is one of the most common ingredients of a Thanksgiving meal, and the most Cuban of desserts is flan. 

Grateful For Turkeys and Potatoes in Cuba

Grateful For Turkeys and Potatoes in Cuba

As I done in the past when I’ve faced previous setbacks, I go to the kitchen.... Escape by peeling, chopping, and grating. Take out that cleaver and pound and smash as much as you need to. Blend stuff into smooth, digestible bits. It’s cathartic. Know that there will be a time when it’s necessary to be engaged, but that doesn’t have to be now. 

Book Your Flight to Havana!

Book Your Flight to Havana!

Direct flights between Havana and the United States are beginning this month -- with prices as low as $130 round trip -- after more than half a century of no direct connections between the two places. Book your tickets now! 

Honey Whole Wheat Bread from Scratch

Honey Whole Wheat Bread from Scratch

This morning, I woke up and felt, again, like someone had died. One of my favorite grieving books is Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking. We’re going to need four years of it. We’re also going to need a good breakfast routine.

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A Gazpacho Called Clinton

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A Gazpacho Called Clinton

How Cubans are feeling about the U.S. election and a recipe for Gazpacho Clinton, which I'll be spiking tonight while I watch the results come in...

How to Slay a Halloween Marshmallow

How to Slay a Halloween Marshmallow

I tried to take the marshmallow out of the baking dish. It didn’t budge. I tried to press cookie cutters into it. The giant sticky blob remained firmly in the dish, as defiant as the Stay Puft Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters...

Do-It-Yourself (or Don't) Halloween Candy

Do-It-Yourself (or Don't) Halloween Candy

I decided to take it upon myself, with the help of my friend Adriana, to see if I could make Halloween candy from scratch. Our goal was to make orange-tinted marshmallows. Sometimes in life, things don't go the way you want them to. This was an example of one of those instances...