5 years ago
Caribbean (10 posts found)
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JetBlue Flies Commercial Flight to Cuba, the First in Over 50 Years and I Was Onboard
It was 11:58 am on Friday morning and I still had to park somewhere near 16th St. The Cuban Embassy, open for official government business only 15 months, closes at noon. I parked, illegally, and ran fast enough to burn off breakfast. I walked up to the ga...
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- Cuba
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- Cuba
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- Culture
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- Food
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- Food Culture & Politics
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- Havana
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- La Cocina Cubana
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- Lifestyle
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- Travel
A Story About Cuban Food
I was at the Cuban Interest Office in Washington, just a few miles from where I live, speaking through a locked iron fence, asking the familiar guard the status of my Cuban passport. I applied for it 3 months prior and should have received it 6 weeks earli...
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Caribbean Beach-Style Massages: See Corey
Every girl deserves all-inclusive spa treatments, with the works -- massages, steam room, soothing teas, hot tub, and essential oil fragrance to perfume the ambiance. There's nothing like it. It's such a simple pleasure.If you can't spend an entire day at ...
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- Caribbean
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- St Croix
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
St. Croix’s Ridge to Reef Sustainable and Organic Farm. A Delicious Island Retreat
Part of my trip to St. Croix last spring involved taking a bumpy ride to a reclusive corner of the island until we ended up at the Ridge to Reef Organic Farm. The purpose of our day excursion was to get a glimpse and taste of the farming lifestyle on the b...
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- Caribbean
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- St Croix
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
St. Croix Food & Wine Experience. Kicking Off With a Fancy Dinner by Top Chef Tiffany Derry
(Chicken livers and risotto)
What in the world do you do when you're invited to attend a culinary festival where all you do is eat, drink and repeat? Well, you go on a diet, of course. Only because you have to make room for every single thing you're guarant...
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A Hec of a Sexy Week in the US Virgin Islands…
But I'm back. Drats. Sorry for being out of sight for the past two weeks! Without notice, I hopped on a plane and went to St. Croix to attend their 11th annual Food & Wine Experience! Talk about sexy *ish, super delish food and the ...
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A Cuban-American’s Humble Gratitude
(neighborhood street in Cojimar, La Habana)I just came back from the grocery store, holding a bag with 3 bright lemons. 3 for $1. Pretty good, right? They were on sale. I'm going to make a really good lemonade and sweeten with honey so I can sip on i...
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- Appetizers
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- Caribbean
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- Cocktails
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- Fusion
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- Soups
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- St Maarten
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
Do You Like Tarragon? How About Some Soup?
Do you ever feel like throwing up your hands, twirling around, screaming at the top of your lungs and laughing like it's just you and the trees?
Or the rain drops?
That's what yesterday was like. For about 10 minutes. I didn't do it, but I felt like it. My $5...
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- Caribbean
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
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- Trinidad
Taste of T & T Deserves 1 More Story
And so does St. Maarten, especially with all the great food I ate. Plus I conned one of resto chef's to impart 2 recipes I want to share with you. Still waiting on them.
In the meantime, I have to finish the 3 part series on T & T, because this last bit w...
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- Caribbean
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- Food
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- Lifestyle
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- St Maarten
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
St. Maarten Is Hot In Many Ways But My Espresso Flan Was Disgraced! Cooking W/Emeril Is Tonight!
Oh my goodness people. I can't even wait to get the food part of this post. I have to tell you right now. I had the worse flan ever on my last night in St. Maarten! I hate to even put this out there, but I was in such shock. When I saw espresso flan on the de...
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