History of Cuban Cuisine
There is nothing like eating pastelitos and croquetas at Abuela’s house and dipping your tostada in café con leche. Cuban food, like the culture, is an accidental blend of native Taino, European (mostly Spanish with a splash of French and Portuguese) African, and Caribbean food, with a hint of Chinese....
Cuando del comer se habla: Chef Fernando, la tradición cubana
Mylene Hernández Dicen los ancianos que todo lo que va, regresa, y un poco pasa así con esta historia. Este es un cuento para la hora del almuerzo o de la cena, pues leerlo, sin dudas, puede abrir tu apetito, más aún si eres de esos sensibles a las tradiciones...
Los Yankees de Nueva York: el Equipo de los Cubanos
Eduardo Mora Basart Desandar las calles de Nueva York es exponerse a los encantos de una ciudad que parece esquiva a quienes se resisten a considerarla la capital del mundo. Espacios como Broadway, el Empire State, el Parque Central o la Quinta Avenida, pletórica de maniquíes que evocan imborrables rostros...
Cosa Rica: The Beauty of Empowered Cuban Women
Abel FL Berriz Ocean Drive 1052. Saturday, December 3. We arrive at the place. It’s hard to find number 1052 among the crowd of people passing by, drinking in the terraces, selling stuff. The number is rather small and hard to see beyond canopies and ornamental plants. We walk through...
Roberto C. Goizueta
Roberto C. Goizueta speaks about the importance of conducting business with integrity, honor, and pride. His son shares a favorite quote of Roberto Goizueta that highlights what makes a good leader. Goizueta Business School is one of the nation¹s only business schools with four Top 20 ranked business degree programs...
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Maria Teresa was born in 22 March 1956 in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, to José Antonio Mestre y Álvarez (Vedado, Havana, 1926–1993) and wife (m. Vedado, Havana, 1951) María Teresa Batista y Falla de Mestre (Vedado, Havana, 1928–1988), both from bourgeois families of Spanish descent. The Mestre family have as their...
Hotel Ambos Mundos
The Ambos Mundos, built in the beginnings of the 20th century, is an Eclectic-style hotel with five stories, erected in the site where once stood an ancestral home. It became worldly famous after being the first lodging in Cuba for the notorious American author Ernest Hemingway, who dwelt there almost...
Havana Biennial Art Exhibition
The Havana Biennial is an art exhibition that takes place in Havana every two years, aimed at promoting contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art circles and artists. Started in 1984, the Biennial has become a festival of arts, where challenging reflections and speeches about contemporary and local societies and philosophies...
Women in the Arts at the Adrienne Arsht Center
“We women are creative, resourceful, and resilient. As artists, we should not only inspire with what beautiful gifts we have been given, but we as women in the arts, are responsible to use our gifts and be a positive force for change in the world.”
Festival de la Universidad Stony Brook dedicado al cine cubano
NEW YORK, NY 29 de marzo, 2017 – El Festival de Cine Hispanoamericano de Stony Brook University dedica su edición de este año a Cuba por vez primera, con una muestra sobre el cine cubano contemporáneo. Organizado por Gisele Blain,
