The toothpaste is out of the tube and there’s no putting it back.
Cuba is changing. It’s changed dramatically already, just in the few years since I was last there—and those changes are accelerating at a rate that no one can contain or control.
It’s long overdue.
“Last time I was in Havana, a meal at a paladar would have been rice and beans. Now? Sushi. A certain sign of impending apocalypse.”
Bourdain ate: the day’s catch, featuring classic seafood and sushi.
240A (3ra. C), Jaimanitas, La Habana
Bourdain ate: a ceviche of dogfish with pickled vegetables, loin of pork pan-seared with yucca, and a riff on a traditional orange sauce with garlic and coriander.
Calle 26, esquina 11, Vedado, La Habana