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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.
Her mother was born in Spain, and taught Porto to cook and bake. During the early years of the Cuban Revolution, her husband cut sugar cane in a labor camp, and Rosa baked for neighbors to support her family. [1] Her baking business in Manzanillo was informal, and illegal.
Quesito is one of the most popular pastries in Puerto Rico. The origin of this pastry is unclear but exact recipes are found all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Cream cheese is whipped with vanilla and sugar , guava paste or jam can be added and is a favorite in Latin America and Caribbean.
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]
The primary product lines are pastries and breads formulated from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Caribbean and South American flavors and recipes. Latin Flavors began in Cuba in 1921 when Valentin Garcia, of Spanish descent, and his brothers started their first bakery.
Patricia Jinich (/ ˈ h i n i tʃ / born Patricia Drijanski, March 30, 1972) is a Mexican chef, TV personality, cookbook author, educator, and food writer. She is best known for her James Beard Award-winning [4] and Emmy-nominated public television series Pati's Mexican Table [5] and her James Beard Award-winning [6] PBS primetime docuseries La Frontera with Pati Jinich. [7]
Yvette Prieto (born March 26, 1978) is a Cuban-American model. [1] She has modeled for designer Alexander Wang [ 2 ] and appeared in the documentary Cuba: An Island Apart as herself. Early life
William Yosses (born 1953 or 1954) [1] is an American chef who is best known as co-author of the book Desserts For Dummies and for being the White House Executive Pastry Chef from 2007 to 2014. Yosses was the owner of the pastry company Perfect Pie, which was based in New York City.