On my last trip to Cuba, I hung out with my friend Adolfo, a filmmaker and part-time tour guide. I’d promised to teach him how to bake chocolate ginger cookies. Baking cookies isn’t so popular in Cuba as in the U.S., and a lot of ingredients I use aren’t even available: chocolate chips, molasses, ground ginger, crystallized ginger, and even baking powder. So I had…
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On my first trip to Cuba, I lasted about a day before someone told me about Cuba’s second national pastime. (The first being baseball, of course.) Little did I know, I’d hear about Cuba’s “second national pastime” again and again – and the pastime would change with each new telling! Cubans use this phrase to joke about any key aspect of Cuban life. So for example,…
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Some things you don’t forget.
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A helpful sign gets a naughty makeover…
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