An article published this Monday in the Cuban official press recognizes the difficulties that families in Cuba must face daily to cook, given the widespread shortage of food and other items.
The text was published in the newspaperWorkers regarding Cuban Cuisine Day, which is celebrated every October 18, and highlights the heterogeneity of culinary traditions in the Antillean country.
“With a mixture of flavors and aromas that when combined delight the palate, however, insufficient agricultural production, ups and downs in offers and high prices make it a daily challenge in homes,” he says.
According to the article, work in the kitchen falls “mostly on women,” who try to “achieve diversity,” which “requires adventures and creativity.”
“Not a few see that moment with displeasure, for others it is the opportunity to grow,” he says.
Likewise, she cites some cases of women who make recipes to deal with famine,which they share with acceptance on social networks, among them, Dianelys Tejera Hernández, a 36-year-old Havana native.
“I was in a cooking group but it was with “all the irons” (as we Cubans say) and I saw many comments from mothers who said that they could never make something as good as that, that they didn't even have half the skills. things, and some dealt alone with their children, feeling suffocated, because they lacked or little support from their father; That unfortunately happens a lot in Cuba, they act like this, they separate from their children once the marriage bond is over, I unfortunately felt identified with them,” Tejera said about her motivations.
“The requirement to stay at home, plus the worsening of the shortage due to COVID-19, has found a resilient response in similar spaces. These women openly share how they reuse what was left over from the previous day, how they economize on certain raw materials and much more. more,” the article describes.
In “Recipes from the Heart”, a page that started at the end of June on Facebook, Tejera and other Cubans like Yuliet Colón offer “tips”, ideas and tricks to get ahead with what is in the week or what was given to her. to the population through the ration book.
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