The Cuban baker and chef Eduardo Guevara, creator of the popular Facebook profile "Sabores de mi tierra Cuba", tried a guava and cheese pizza for the first time along with several compatriots in Denver, Colorado, and was so surprised that he posed an open question to his audience.
"I have it available; I don't know if people like it. They can let me know if they want me to add the guava and cheese pizza to the menu," said Guevara. The popular chef confessed that he had been seeing this recipe on social media for some time but had never tried it.
"I've been thinking about this for a while because I've seen it on social media, the guava pizza," he commented while watching his customers enjoy the product.
Alongside him are several Cubans from Pinar del Río, Havana, and Camagüey, but only the latter had tried this unique variant before. They all agree that the combination of guava and cheese tastes fantastic.
The guava-cheese duo is no stranger to the Cuban palate. The guava and cheese pastries are one of the island’s most iconic sweets, found in bakeries and cafés for decades. It also appears in flans, candied guava, and other traditional desserts. However, that combination does not exist in Cuba in pizza form.
In Brazil, however, the combination of guava and cheese has a distinctive name—"Romeu e Julieta"—and is a nationally celebrated dessert with a long-standing tradition. Its sweet pizza version, featuring guava paste and mozzarella or Minas cheese, ranks among the most popular in the country and is part of a sweet pizza culture that is entirely different from the Cuban tradition.
Guevara, who has lived in Denver for years, has become a reference point for Cuban cuisine in the diaspora thanks to his blend of humor and traditional recipes.
Among his most remembered proposals is a gastronomic challenge he launched in May 2025: eat a full tray of Cuban food in 10 minutes in exchange for 200 dollars in cash, a challenge that no customer had managed to overcome until then.
It went viral in January 2024 when it started selling Cuban bread style "bodega bread", made with all the ingredients. "In the United States, we don't steal oil, sugar, or flour," he explained at that time, directly referencing the shortages and cuts that bakeries in Cuba suffer from.
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