In honor of World Rainforest Day, we’re sharing our video from Ecuador’s Chocó bioregion and the award winning Mashpi Lodge, to share with you the power of our planet’s magical forests. Startup Cuba’s Zuzy Martin-Aly in the cloud forest. Photo: Karen Vierbuchen We hear a lot about the importance of tropical forests. We hear that […]
Leave it to Startup Cuba’s Cynthia Carris Alonso to score the recipes for BOTH Bodeguita del Medio’s Mojito and El Floridita’s daiquiris. El Floridita daiquiris being poured in Old Havana, Cuba. Photo: Cynthia Carris Alonso It’s a long weekend here in the States, so I’d be remiss if I didn’t help you bring at least […]
There’s even a new magazine dedicated exclusively to Cuban birders. It’s a free, bilingual digital quarterly all about this new, up-and-coming movement. A Cuban Grassquit bird. Photo: ebird It’s Cuban birdwatching and deep in a grove of words, all black and in Georgia font, Orlando Garrido reveals one of birding’s holy grails; he punts on […]
On January 25, 1982, Ubre Blanca became the world champion when she delivered 109.5 liters (28.9 gallons) milk in one day – more than four times that of an average cow. A Cebú Bull, Vinales. A white marble statue of a beloved revolutionary heroine stands at the entrance to La Victoria, a hamlet some 27 […]
Author Alvaro Santana-Acuña talks to us about his new book Ascent to Glory, and Gabriel García Márquez’s ties to Cuba and self-imposed quarantine. Photo courtesy of Harry Ransom Center “In these times, when it seems that we’re all living in a global Macondo, many readers are turning to One Hundred Years of Solitude as if […]
