/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16423029
cubans are primitive

>>16423029
Yes. I have some friends that moved from Florida and they brought cuban cooking with them. Surprisingly good shit for how simple it is. The pork and plantains are highlights for me.

The only thing that distinguishes Hispanic cuisines is proximity of meat to bread/flatbread

>>16423029
It's basically an offshoot of hispanic food, so if you like hispanic food you'll like it.

>>16423029
what is the thing on the far right?

>>16423029
Cuban food is like Mexican food but without the spices and flavor right?

>>16423148
roast garloid

That pork looks so fucking dry. No sauce or marinade?

I live in Florida and I'm white. I used to work in Miami and initially I really didn't get the appeal to Cuban food but once you realize that its not high end food and its really just hispanic comfort food you start to come around. Its literally like hispanic cracker barrel

I spent a couple of months in Cuba a few years ago. The food is good in restaurants, hotels, and private rented apartments.

I won't say it's bland, but it's not strongly spiced. Lots of fresh fruit and eggs in the morning. Some bread, but it wasn't everywhere. Unfortunately, Cuban coffee can be pretty bad. Most of what you'll get will be imported instant coffee, Hotel Libra in Havana can make American, and European coffees (not Starbucks shit) and does a damn good job.

Beef is not impossible to find, but chicken and pork are much more common. Apparently Castro though cows were better for dairy. Cubans go apeshit for ice cream.

Pork hamburgers are popular and pretty fucking good, and Cubans know how to work a deep fryer. Anything you get fried will be crisp, not greasy and it will hit your table about 5 seconds after it comes out of the oil.

Cubans put a lot of sugar in almost everything, as a government mandated way to support the sugar industry. Cuban sodas are sugar bombs, and even their beers have a sweet after taste. Cocktails and even drinks like lemonade (or limonade) will have a significant amount of residual sugar at the bottom of the glass.

They eat a decent amount of seafood, but honestly not as much as I thought an island nation would. Maybe the gov doesn't want too many people on boats everyday. Seafood tended to be very overcooked, a dish would look amazing on the table, but then the fish would be dry, or the lobster would be like rubber. Same fried food rules apply to seafood, it will always be hot and crisp. Expect a lot of mayo if you're told it's in a dish.

Side dishes: tons of potatoes and potato like veggies prepared a variety of ways. Tons of beans, tons of rice. The salads suck, its almost always only super thinly sliced lettuce or cabbage and tomato and onion also sliced paper thin with white vinegar and vegetable oil to dress it. Salt and pepper will be on every table, but the pepper is dust like and flavorless.

>>16423368
sounds good for the most part but that sugar shit would drive me nuts. or I'd just get conditioned and my teeth would fall out

>>16423029
Most of it is way too dry for me

>>16423368
Cont'd

They like pizza too, but I didn't see it many places. The sauce is of course extremely sweet.

Heat? Nah, they don't do spicy food. Some places will have a bottle of hot sauce available, but it might be pretty weak because a half empty bottle was topped off with vinegar to stretch it further.

Decent amount of pickled cucumbers, beets, sweet peppers. They do eat a lot of veggies, fresh, grilled, and pickled.

If you can get a food item from Europe or Canada you can probably find it in Cuba.

American branded liquors are popular but very expensive. Bucanero beer is good and I got used to the sweetness pretty quick, Cristal is like Bud Light but sweet, and imported Presidente is pretty good. I also saw tons of Heineken around the island.

You can buy and drink beer in a baseball stadium, but only in the concession area. You can't take a beer to your seat. You can kill half a soda and then top it off with liquor and go watch the game.

Bottled water is widely available, dirt cheap compared to the US and the best choice for visitors.

I don't know about Cuban inspired food in Miami and Tampa. I have heard it praised highly, but I am not too much a fan of Florida.

>>16423029
I enjoy it. The only Cuban restaurant in my area shut down, but thankfully it's pretty easy to make at home.

>>16423422
>American branded liquors are popular but very expensive.
what are the popular ones?

Its about as primitive and boring as any other ex communist country's cuisine but with a latin american flair

>>16423029
its shit, but the dishes worth trying are ropa vieja and Rabo Encendido

t. cuban

>>16423148
Saffron rice, beans, and sweet plantain

>>16424338
>>"ropa veija"
Chileans do it better.

>>16424350
some garloid-y looking plantain

>>16424543
like every other sugary cuban meal it tastes like a caramelized banana

>>16423029
>Is Cuban food any good? Seems kind of primitive
>pic not even Cuban food
>yellow dry rice
>dry pork without any kind of marinated onions, prolly not even a mojo marinade with sour orange, and it even looks spoiled, color is way off
>red beans? bbq beans? wtf, who made this? domininican? haitian?

Cuba was once one of the richest places in the world. 2nd sons from Spain who didn't inherit the family home, ie classy people, who were college educated, who's children went to private schools and followed all the traditions of the home country.
Meet anyone in Miami who's parents came over in the 60s and you'll understand food and traditions from cultured people who appreciate fine dining. Real Cuban food isn't able to be made in Cuba anymore, gotta go to a nice family's house for like a baby shower, or dine at an Isla Canarias, Versailles, or even LAC or Palacio de los Jugos. Pic is my favorite sandwich.

>>16423288
its likely a day or two old desu. a lot of dr/pr/cuban places are cafeteria style, meaning most of the shit is pre made and sitting under heat lamps or in food warmers.