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I’m in the heart of the city, which means I get to enjoy something amazing from one of the …

ShareSo, I walked into a liquor store the other day, on a mission to buy booze for a friend’s party. Anything I wanted, she said. She was making a grilled limey pork tenderloin. I walked …

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My dad used to swear by the medicinal properties of garlic.
“Garlic,” he would always say, “is a natural antibiotic.” He usually made this pronouncement as he was pouring olive oil over toasted Cuban bread …

ShareSo there I was, cooking Cuban food and minding my own business, when I received an email from the lovely folks at Kikkoman. Yes, you know them best as the Japanese soy sauce people.
They were …

ShareBecause I’m a blogger (here at TikiTiki, at Babalú Blog and over at My big, fat, Cuban family) I get asked by advertisers to consider hawking their product. They know that Hispanics make up the …

ShareI sometimes wonder what I would do if I didn’t have my mom.
It’s not so much that I need her in that everyday sense anymore. It’s just that she supplies so much fodder for my …

ShareI got a kick out of this video of Guy Fieri – of the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. He was in Miami looking for a great “mofongo.” I like how he says …

ShareI have a friend, Ana Quincoces (don’t-hate-me-because-I’m-beautiful) Rodriguez who has a fabulous Cuban cookbook called Sabor! A Passion for Cuban Cuisine. It’s gorgeous, just like Ana, with beautiful color photos throughout.

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ShareGrowing up Cuban meant always having guava paste in the house. We would pair a slice of the rusty colored fruit paste with a slab of cream cheese on a galleta (Cuban cracker). The sweet/tart …

ShareOne of my uncles, whom we affectionately call Timbiriche, was visiting from Cuba a while back. I went out of my way to cook whatever he wanted.
“Qualquier antojo,” I told him. “Sin pena.”
Most days he …