ShareKikita (la hija de Marta) here and I have a happy announcement:
Mami will be turning…*ahem*… 21 on Friday, May 21st, 2010.

We will be in Miami for this momentous occasion and I’ve decided there is only …

ShareWe here at the Tiki really want to get to know you.
So, tell us about yourselves. Here are some questions to help you. Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and put on your thinking …

ShareWe, here at Tiki Tiki would really like to get to know you better.  Please answer the following questions about yourselves.
So, come on,  let’s start the Tiki Tiki today with a quiz. (I so love …

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I just read a column titled “When is a Latina not a Latina?’‘  The author, part Puerto Rican and non-Spanish-speaking, details frustrating moments when she was neither white enough nor Latina enough.
I shook my head …

“It really doesn’t matter that I’m a gringa and my husband is cubanazo…. I have learned so much about a culture that I really knew nothing about before, but the most incredible thing is that despite my growing up in Idaho and his growing up in Havana, we share the same morals and values.The things his parents and grandparents told him and his sister are identical to the lessons and tidbits my brother and I received from ours.”

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These clocks are in my kitchen. They read from left to right like this:
~ Hanalei, Hawaii – our favorite place in the islands.
~ Mission Viejo, California – where we live.
~ Habana, Cuba – where I’m …

ShareI don’t dare post pictures of what I have been up to in the kitchen anymore without posting the recipe. (I get emails…) I know I usually post about Cuban food, but I wanted to …

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This was how we celebrated birthdays back in Cuba. These are my sisters and me at different ages.
(If you’re really curious, just count the candles on the cakes)
There was always a big, beautiful, almost-too-perfect cake …

ShareWe’ve got a dear family friend whom we’ll call “Sylvia.”  We’ll call her Sylvia because, well… that’s her name. =D
Sylvia is and has always been the representation of perfect Cuban womanhood to me.  I’ve known …

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My kids were all born in Southern California. My husband, Eric, also is a native Californian. So the only kind of churros they’ve ever known have come from a cart at Disneyland. But those are Mexican-style. …