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The Cuban bakery chain Porto's has been a Los Angeles favorite for decades and is still going strong. Pro tip: You can order any cafe item from any line; pick the shorter one.
The Portos were allowed to leave Cuba in 1971. [3] They moved to Los Angeles, where she sold her Cuban-style cakes and other foods from home, while her husband worked as a janitor. The couple used a small loan to open a bakery in Silver Lake in 1976. Their next, larger location was in Glendale in 1982, and offered an expanded menu. [4]
If you've ever held a pastel-yellow box full of Cuban pastries in Los Angeles, you've most likely tasted the legacy of Raul Porto Sr. and his family's Porto's Bakery. He died this week at 92.
At nearly any Cuban bakery, the common breakfast order will be a tostada and a cafe con leche. A tostada is about a quarter of a cuban bread baguette, sliced in half, toasted, and slathered in butter.
Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1] Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulps.
Torta della nonna is a dessert typical of the region of Tuscany in Italy. It is a sweet pastry cake filled with vanilla-flavored custard and covered with pine nuts and confectioner's sugar. Torta delle rose: Italy: A Mantuan and Brescian cake that is made with leavened dough rich in butter and sugar. The dough is rolled up and placed in the ...
Aside from the typical Cuban bakery favorites, La Rosa was known for its meringues, little white treats that will ruin the most disciplined diet, which they sold in a packet to keep your sugar ...
A traditional Polish pastry, originally a wedding cake that has made its way into American homes around the Christmas and Easter holidays. The pastry is a light and flaky dough filled with a variety of sweet and savory fillings such as apricot, raspberry, prune, sweet cheese, poppy seed, or even a nut mixture. The Polish pastry is made from a ...