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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.
Xavier Cugat conducting the Waldorf Astoria Orchestra with his wife Carmen Castillo singing his song "Yours" in the 1940's Here on archive.org Cugat recorded for Columbia (1940s and 1950s, and Epic), RCA Victor (1930s and 1950s), Mercury (1951–52 and the 1960s), and Decca (1960s).
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]
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.
Ángel Castro was born in Láncara, in a small fieldstone house typical of the poor Galician peasants of that time, [1]: 25 to Manuel de Castro y Núñez (Láncara, c. 1853 – Láncara, 12 June 1903) and Antonia Argiz y Fernández (Láncara, 1857 – Láncara, 16 November 1887), who had married in Láncara on 16 August 1873.
Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] at age 88.
Emily Luchetti was born in 1957 and raised in Corning, New York. [1] [3] She attended Denison University and graduated with a B.A. degree (1979) in Sociology.[6] [7] She continued her studies at New York Restaurant School (now The Art Institute of New York City) in Manhattan.