Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oriente citizens complain that the rich income earned by Oriente exports (sugar, coffee) goes largely for projects in Havana. Such inequity traditionally spurs Oriente men to rebellion; both of Cuba's wars for independence against Spain began in Oriente, and the first stanza of the Cuban national anthem honors revolutionaries of the Oriente town of Bayamo...
Beyond the mountains, Castro's sabotage campaign damaged stored sugar, a railway warehouse, a railroad line. Bombs exploded nightly in Havana. The center of civil resistance was Santiago, where Castro has become a romantic hero. There, 26 women were arrested for marching through the streets with a Cuban flag and posters protesting the "killing of our children," and ordering Batista's police chief...
...silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening his men by day-long forced marches and showing them every strategic rock, gully and tall tree. He won the good will of mountain peasants by spending hours in conversation with them, paying them in cold Cuban cash for food and help. He kept discipline taut, collected recruits a few at a time. By the time last week's campaign began, he had close to 400 seasoned men, most of them equipped with modern weapons. And though evacuated peasants jammed hospitals and army barracks in towns...
...blends themselves, in both Tulla's and the Capriccio the many varities come from five or six staples. Tulla explains that she uses Colombia, Brazilian, Javanese, Luziane, and a "secret" blend of Cuban coffee. Most she orders from New York wholesalers, but the Luziane is shipped from New Orleans. To hurry it along, Tulla occassionally resorts to urgent dispatches like the card she sent last week: "Help, help! We ordered six pounds of Luzaine several weeks ago. Wha hoppened...
Both coffees manage to create more than a dozen exotic varities from the basic grinds. Cappucino and Mocha are the most popular at the Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...