paladares (family homes as privately-operated restaurants), here
Palo Monte religion, here, here, here
Pánfilo de Narváez, here
Paradiso (Lezama Lima), here
paranoia in Havana, here
Parque Central, here, here, here, here
Paseo del Prado, here, here, here
Patria Libre, La (newspaper), here
peanut vendors, here
“Pepito” jokes, here
Pérez de Angulo, Gonzalo, here
Pérez de la Riva, Juan, here
pharmaceuticals shortage, here
Philip II, king of Spain, here
picadillo recipe, here
Pinar del Río, Castro landing at, here
Piñera, Virgilio, here
pirates and Spanish treasure taken from Cuba, here, here
Platt Amendment, here
Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja, here, here, here, here
Plaza de la Catedral, here, here
Plaza de la Revolución, Vedado, here, here
“Plaza de Vapor” (Evans), here
poetic vs. scientific delirium, here
poetry, here, here, here
Pollo a lo Tinguaro recipe, here
pollution in Havana Bay, here
post-revolution
distribution of cars, homes, and valuables, here
scientific delirium, here
tourism, here
trial of air force officers, here
unexpected stability of Cuba, here
wealthy people leaving Cuba, here
The Pride of Havana (González Echevarría), here
Prío Socarrás, Carlos, here
Prohibition era in United States, here
prostitution, here, here, here, here, here, here
Puerto de Carenas, here
racism, here, here
radio stations, here
railroads, here
Rancho Luna restaurant, Guanajay, here
recipes
ajiaco, here
chicken stew, here
Mojito, here
picadillo, here
Pollo a lo Tinguaro, here
Sloppy Joe and Sloppy Joe’s, here
Reed, Walter, here
Regla, Habana Vieja, here, here, here, here
religion
Arará, here
Catholicism, here, here, here
and ceiba trees, here
and God, here, here, here
and orishas, here, here, here
Palo Monte, here, here,
here
Santería, here, here, here, here, here
revolution. See Cuban Revolution
rhumba music, here
Ribalaigua, Constantino “Constante,” here
rice and beans marriage partners, here
Roman Catholicism, here, here, here
Root, Elihu, here
Rosales, Guillermo, here
royal palms, here
rum production, here
Russia, here. See also Soviet Union
Sabourín, Emilio, here
sacrifice and sacrificial animals, here, here
Saint Lazarus shrine, here
Sánchez, Celia, here
San Cristóbal de la Habana I, II, and III, here, here
Sans Souci nightclub, here
Santería
babalawos/priests, here
ceremonies, here, here, here
and La Charada, here
legend that Changó seduced Ochún by dancing, here
Santiago, here
scientific vs. poetic delirium, here
sea, the, here, here, here
Sert, Josep Lluís, here
Sevilla/Sevilla Biltmore, here
sex industry, here, here, here, here, here, here
sex in written works, here
shipyard and shipbuilding, here
shoe self-sufficiency, here
shopping, here, here
Sierra, Justina, here
Simons, Moises, here
Simple Verses (Marti), here
slaves and slavery
about, here
and barracoons, here, here
cabildos, here
chain gang on the Plaza de la Cathedral, here
Chinese as, here
Cuba post-slavery, here
slave rebellions, here
slaves buying their own freedom, here
slave trade, here
smuggling slaves into Cuba, here
Spanish military protecting slave owners, here, here
and sugar production,
here, here
suicide as viable option, here
treatment of new arrivals, here
uprisings, here, here, here
volante drivers’ attire, here
See also free blacks and mixed race mulatas
Sloppy Joe’s bar and restaurant, here, here
Sloppy Joe’s recipes, here
soccer and soccer players, here, here, here
social criticism, here
socialism, here, here, here. See also Cuban Revolution
Socialism or Death! poster, here
Society of Afro-Cuban Studies, here
“Son de Ma Teodora” (Ginés), here
son music, here, here, here
Soto, Hernando de, here
sour oranges, here
Soviet Union, here, here, here. See also Russia; special period
Spain and the Spanish
and African slave trade to the Americas, here
banning baseball, here,
chess in Cuba brought by, here
conquest of Cuba, here
constructing ships in Havana, here
military presence protecting slave owners in Cuba, here, here
pirates and Spanish treasures taken from Cuba, here, here
political prisoners of, here
Spaniards in Cuba as gallegos, here
Spanish-American War, here
Spanish language in Cuba, here
uprisings against Spanish rule, here, here
Spanish Fascist movement (Falange), here
special period (dissolution of Soviet Union)
Castro’s announcement of, here
dissatisfaction with socialism, here, here
effect of collapse of USSR, here
food sources, here
paladares, here
tourism and foreign investments as solution, here, here
steamships, here
Steber, Maggie, here
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, here
Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate) (film), here
Suárez Portal, Raida Mara, here
Subirana y Lobo, Ricardo, here
sugar, here, here, here, here
suicides and martyrs, here, here, here
Suñol, Eddy, here
sweat, here
Tabío, Carlos, here
Tainos, here, here, here, here. See also Batista, Fulgencio
telegraph, here
television, here, here
El Templete restaurant, here
Ten Years’ War, here
Terry, T. Phillip, here
Terry’s Guide to Cuba (Terry), here
Three Trapped Tigers (Cabrera Infante), here
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), here
tourists and tourism
about, here
and Cuban convertible pesos, here
and lobster, here
in mid-nineteenth century, here
Museo Hemingway, here, here
post-revolution, here
pre-revolution, here
and Prohibition era in United States, here
and special time problems, here
taxi drivers for, here
waiting in line for ice cream ritual, here
trade, international, here, here, here, here
Tra
fficante, Santo, Jr., here, here
transculturation process, here, here
Trollope, Anthony, here, here, here, here, here
tropical hardwood as commodity and for shipbuilding, here
Tropicana, here, here
turkey vultures (aura tiñosa), here
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), here
La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) (film), here
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), here
UNESCO, here
United States
and Batista, here
Bay of Pigs invasion, here
CIA, here, here
commercial interests in Cuba pre-takeover, here
Cuban Missile Crisis, here
Cubans playing baseball in, here, here
embargo on Cuba, here, here, here, here, here, here
Manifest Destiny doctrine, here, here
Martí’s opposition to U.S. possession of Cuba, here, here
occupation of Cuba, here, here, here
organized crime from, here, here, here, here, here
Prohibition era, here
Spanish-American War, here
U.S. Senate investigation of CIA, here
uprisings against Spanish rule, here, here
Uría, Hernández Roberto, here
U.S. dollars, value of, here, here
Varadero, here
Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diego, here
Virgin of Regla (Yemayá), here
Versos Sencillos (Martí), here
Vilalta de Saavedra, José, here, here
Villarreal, Rene, here
Villaverde, Cirilo, here. See also Cecilia Valdés
volantes, here, here
Waiting for Snow in Havana (Eire), here
wall around Habana Vieja, here, here, here,
here
“Wash Woman” (Guillén, Hughes trans.), here
waterfront. See Habana
Vieja
weather in Havana, here
White, Trumbull, here
windows, here, here, here, here, here
women of Cuba, here, here, here, here. See also sex industry
Wood, Leonard, here
yellow fever research, here
Yemayá (Virgin of Regla), here
Yoruba, Nigeria, here, here
Yoruba cabildo, here
Yoruba language, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
MARK KURLANSKY is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and International Night, among many others. He received the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appétit’s Food Writer of the Year award in 2006, and the 1998 James Beard Award for Writing on Food and the 1999 Glenfiddich Award, both for Cod. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and frequently writes books on the Caribbean, including A Continent of Islands, The White Man in the Tree, and The Eastern Stars. He lives in New York City.
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