NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For many Cuban families in Louisiana, Christmas means gathering for a traditional lechon, a pig roast that serves as the centerpiece of their holiday celebration. Vivian Nieto, ...

The voice woke me from a late-afternoon nap after partying all night at the year-end carnival in my father’s hometown 20 years ago. It came from the backyard of a family house where I’d been sleeping.

The Cuban sandwich is Cuba’s most renowned gateway food. “It’s what everyone asks for when I take them to Cuba,” said Gloria Cabral-Jordan, a Fort Myers chef and restaurateur who leads culinary tours ...

Simplicity at its finest. That’s what I’m thinking as I’m devouring the lechon sandwich at the new Papo’s Cuban Kitchen in Anaheim. Most chefs would not have been able to restrain themselves enough to ...

Welcome to this first episode of a very exciting season of Dining on a Dime, our 13th season, if you can believe it. I’m heading down to one of my favorite cities, escaping the winter for sunny and ...

Little Havana’s restaurant scene in Miami is getting another dose of Cuban nostalgia from the bygone era leading up to the revolution. Gastronomica Miami, the team behind Sala’o, Old’s Havana Cuban ...

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