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...Latino eateries. Opened last year in the Blackstone Hotel, Mercat is a Catalan kitchen and Garces' first hometown restaurant. A meal at Mercat is kicked off with a cocktail menu strong on sangria and cava as dishes big and small flow freely from a glass-tiled open kitchen. Tiny padron peppers come fried in a crust of salbitxada (almond sauce); Catalan sausage and meatballs serve as anchors for a spicy Spanish stew. Mercat's namesake plancha entrées include grilled chorizo and morcilla (blood sausage). Rambling over three colorful floors, this is an all-night fiesta with prices that...
...Strong Women, Strong Girls program. “I’m really excited and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next,” said Rodriguez of her new post. The PBHA cabinet also elected Kristie-Anne Padron ’07 as its next vice-president. Padron ran uncontested after having declined a nomination in the presidential race. David L. Dance ’74, PBHA director of programs, explained that it is common for candidates to decline nomination to one position so as to run for another post...
...licensing, and even more severe restrictions if a couple intends to procreate. Divorce and child-support insurance should be required. Some may think government ought to stay out of our private lives. But the social cost of divorce is comparable to, or perhaps much greater than, reckless driving. MANUEL PADRON Atlanta...
...Cuba's famed cigars turning into second-rate smokes? The country may be facing enormous economic and political problems, but that question is provoking passionate debate. Last week Francisco Padron, the director of Cuba's state-owned tobacco company, proposed a televised taste test to snuff out speculation that Cuba's cigar factories have been hurrying the curing process and producing mediocre products...
...Padron's challenge stems from a dispute with an ex-customer, Zino Davidoff of Geneva, whose company had been buying about 11 million of Cuba's 70 million cigars a year. Davidoff, 84, canceled the arrangement last year and shifted production to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Fumes Davidoff: "The fact is, the Cubans don't produce the same quality anymore...