Its beginnings date back to the pre-Hispanic period when its dishes revolved around corn and other ingredients such as chili peppers, beans, squash, avocado, tomato, cocoa, nopal, rabbit meat, armadillo, and turkey, as well as a wide variety of fruits such as plums and pitayas. When the Spanish arrived in this land, there was a mixture and fusion of gastronomy…
Mariel Boat Lift 1980, 126 thousand Cuban’s abandon the communist island in a massive exodus. The Vilariño family were among the fortunate to make it through the turbulent stretch and reach the land of the free. After years of hardship, the family was determined to make the American dream come true. In 1984 Antonio, his wife Nilda, and five daughters…