As I wrote in my previous post, Cubans are known, among other things, for their healthy appetites. We like our dishes well-prepared and our servings big. Our eating habits, the broad variety of foods we became accustomed to seeing at our tables at one point, are the result of many culinary influences and recipes.
Cubans have healthy appetites (which is a nice way of saying that we’re big eaters). We like big, varied and heavily-seasoned servings. Our noses have grown used to powerful smells and our palates respond well to the strong flavors of our homegrown seasonings.
Everything depends on how things are portrayed, and conflicts in Egypt will be understood on the basis of the how the news is framed by different broadcasters. What do you think?
Unassuming, aimed at a broad public and drawing from the tradition of the urban bards without relying on vulgarity and superficial formulas, the album is as good as Bueno’s last name.
A number of programs on Cuban radio and television aim to introduce the new generations, and remind the old ones, of the most notable figures of Cuban music of all time. However totally or partially excluded are Cubans who decided to live outside the country, leaving generations oblivious to their work.
Former technology consultant and ex-CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden is the man making headlines these days. At least, he is one of the people that the international media is following most closely – another informant who has joined the cyber-crusade to reveal compromising secrets to the world.
The events recently witnessed in Brazil constitute a rare phenomenon indeed: a wave of protests without ringleaders or defined political slogans which, though causing some material damage and regrettably leaving behind two dead, was, for the most part, non-violent.
In a couple week’s time, the streets and boulevards of Santiago de Cuba will once again become the stage of a colorful, popular festivity. Held every year from July 3 to 9, the province’s Festival of Fire celebrates Caribbean culture, and is one of the summer festivities that people here look forward to most intensely.
I couldn’t help but be amused by an article I came across under the title of Internet in Cuba: Good News and Bad News, where the young authors of the piece attempted to downplay the importance of certain developments – and exaggerate the significance of others – to suit their particular interests.
If public transportation within city limits is “terrible”, we would need a particularly harsh adjective, something along the lines of “disastrous”, to capture the experience of those longer journeys, known as “interprovincial trips”, which Cuba’s coach company Astro has been offering for a number of years now.