Word: maestra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall maps the different gastronomical and geographical regions of Italy ("We have 6,000 basic recipes"), expounds the secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta in just about every form from agnolotti to trofie...
...fatigues have been artfully tailored to all but conceal a midriff bulge. Cuba's "maximum leader" will turn 52 in August. He has ruled Cuba for 19 years. Fully 45% of his 9.7 million subjects were born after Fidel and his guerrilla band came down from the Sierra Maestra and marched triumphantly into Havana...
...waiters. They were very friendly and never tired of discussing politics with us. Outside, the sun stood in an ocean-blue background as fluffy white clouds floated by. It was a beautiful day for a field trip. We were on our way to the mountains--the Sierra Maestra mountains where Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other Cuban revolutionaries began a war which culminated in the liberation of Cuba...
After a two-hour drive, we arrived at the Second Front. This was the part of the Sierra Maestra which Raul Castro commanded during the period of armed struggle. Now the front was a museum. A member of the Communist Party greeted us and began the tour. He explained that all the land stretching out from the area where we stood once belonged to a member of the Cuban national bourgeoisie. Along with other revolutionaries, Raul had seized this area, set up schools and gardens for the peasantry and maintained his headquarters. We walked into a small and rustic room...
Still Wary. In Chile, as elsewhere in Latin America, Castro seems a trifle outmoded. His heavy dependence on the Russians has won him no admirers, and his Sierra Maestra style is considered anachronistic by those who follow the smooth urban guerrillas of Uruguay and the business-suited Marxists of Allende's Chile. Even so, he is gaining ground; Peru may soon become the second Latin American country to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. Chile did so a year ago, Mexico has maintained relations with Havana all along, and Argentina and Venezuela may follow. The result could...