This post is sponsored by my favorite coffee people, Café La Llave. The opinions contained in this piece are all my very own. I often say I lead a charmed life and I have the history to back up that claim. I'm Cuban which already makes me feel super lucky. I live here in the U.S.A. which makes my life doubly charmed. Being Cuban and ...
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What’s Your Favorite Cuban Dessert?
What’s your favorite Cuban Dessert? Please don’t start your answer to this question with “it depends.” I can’t handle: “it depends.” I want the answer to be quick, clean, and uncomplicated. Someone asks you: “What’s your favorite Cuban dessert?” I want you to have the answer handily on the tip of your tongue. I want you to know your mind on ...
La Sombrilla Roja – A Giveaway
It's always a great pleasure for me to share about a Cuban author whose voice I genuinely love. Let me introduce you - if you don't already know her - to Christina Diaz Gonzalez. A few years ago I met Christina in Miami and read her beautiful book, The Red Umbrella.ABOUT OPERATION PEDRO PAN Some background for the story that's not very well ...
National Coffee Day Starts with Cafe La Llave – a Giveaway
This post is sponsored by my favorite coffee people, Café La Llave. The opinions contained in this piece are all my very own. It's no secret that I love my Cuban coffee. It's so very obviously in my Cuban DNA. In other words, it's a function of just being Cuban. In fact, one of my earliest memories is sitting at the breakfast table drinking my ...
Love My Skinny Latina
You know those people you meet online and instantly hit it off with? That's what happened when I had my first phone conversation with the lovely Ana "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful" Quincoces. (That's just what I call her, but that's not important right now.) This was many years ago before she was a Food Network Star and the darling of the ...
The Age-old Cuban Question: Maduros or Tostones?
We Cubans love to talk (and talk and talk) about pretty much anything. We have an opinion. And of course, our opinion is the correct one. The best part of this is that we love to engage in what I like to call "Recreational Arguing." In other words, we will argue a point sometimes, not on its merits, but just because we can. Is anyone else ...
Hats Off to Your Cubanity!
My friends at Habana Brand Clothing are always coming up with new and wonderful ways for us Cubans - and Lovers of All Things Cuban - to express ourselves and the pride we feel over our culture. I often say to my kids, "We need to show off our Cubanity!" (<--I know it's not a word, but it should be.) They love the many options that Habana ...
Giving Thoughtfully
Do you know what's better than receiving a super thoughtful gift in the mail? (Maybe some fresh baked homemade Pastelitos de Guayaba, but that's not important right now.) I'd say there's nothing more fun than having a package land on your doorstep and getting to unpack some awesome. I don't think Receiving Gifts is my particular brand of Love ...
Cuban Food Posters For The Win
More reminiscing about what I've been doing for the past 10 years here on the blog and another giveaway today. It starts with a beautiful sofrito. The intricate dance between the warm olive oil giving life and flavor to the onion, garlic, and bell pepper. I could write poetry about the perfection that is a sofrito that signals the beginning ...
Santayana Brings the Charm
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Santayana Jewelry. I think any Cuban worth their salt owns a piece by them. If you're interested in their "Coming to America" story - which I know you totally are - please click on this link, "Cuando Sali De Cuba, Elena's Story." You're welcome. As you probably have guessed by now, I'm still celebrating my 10 ...
