Cuba

  • Baseball Culture in Cuba

    Stateside we sometimes say that baseball is as American as apple pie. Baseball is also the Cuban national sport, so you might say as Cuban as the national dish, ropa vieja. How did it start there? In the USA, we have our myth of Abner Doubleday laying out the ballfield and explaining the rules to… Continue reading

  • Take Me to Cuba

    By Richard C. Even with tourism to Cuba increasing and relations warming, my bank account says I’ll still be getting my taste of Cuban food, fiction, and history the vicarious way. My favorite lately is the instant documentary – Spanish or English anytime, right!? After that it’s fiction. Crime fiction. In Havana Blue, it’s a troubled past catching up to… Continue reading