I got the idea for this Cuban-Style Sofrito from Rachel Ray. She says her version does everything but make the beds (a potentially off-color remark). I made some changes for my version: where Rachel ...

In Cuban cuisine, a pool of hot, buttery “harina” (cornmeal) makes a delicious bed for sauteed shrimp, Creole-style crab or meat picadillo. Here, we offer our version of Cuban shrimp and “grits,” a ...

Alan Espino adds ingredients to his sofrito hot sauce. Alan Espino didn’t discover his love for hot sauce growing up eating his mother’s Cuban cooking. He’s part of a growing number of Miami hot sauce ...

Cuban cuisine is one of the hottest dining trends in the country, so it was only a matter of time before Manhattan sofrito sellers looked East. Though Latin cuisines emigrated to Long Island decades ...

Ropa vieja literally means “old clothes.” It’s not the most appetizing name for food, but it fits the dish, a type of beef stew, pretty well. For me, ropa vieja really IS like old clothes—familiar and ...

As Cuba and the United States tentatively move past decades of hostility and normalize relations, nostalgia is in the air. Havana Hardball conjures a colorful era of baseball that predated big-money ...