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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.
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.
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.
Porto was born in Manzanillo, Cuba.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]
Ubre Blanca with Fidel Castro. Ubre Blanca (c. 1972–1985) was a cow in Cuba known for her prodigious milk production. The cow, along with the "Cordón de La Habana" coffee plantations, the Voisin pasture system, and the microjet irrigation system, symbolized Fidel Castro's efforts to modernize Cuba's agricultural economy.
Ubre Blanca's death made national news in Cuba. Granma ran a full-page obituary, and Ubre Blanca received military honors, a eulogy poem, and a marble statue in her honor. In 2002, Cuban scientists tried to clone Ubre Blanca using genetic samples taken from when she was alive. [2] [7]
Cuban bread is the necessary base for a "Cuban sandwich" (sometimes called a "sandwich mixto"). [13] [14] [15] It can also be served as a simple breakfast, especially toasted and pressed with butter and served alongside (and perhaps dunked into) a hot mug of cafe con leche (strong dark-roasted Cuban coffee with scalded milk).
Cuban-American celebrities commented on Castro's death, including: Jose Canseco, who wrote he "[c]an't say I feel anything for his death. There is a reason many defected to USA;" [ 211 ] and Gloria Estefan , who stated that the event marks "the symbolic death of the destructive ideologies that he espoused that, I believe, is filling the Cuban ...