I grew up in Florida.  I don’t live there anymore, but sometimes, I just can’t help myself – I need Cuban food.  And Tennessee is not exactly a bastion of Cuban cuisine, so I have to make it myself.  There a two things that just […]

When I was a teenager growing up in Florida, our family was lucky enough to “borrow” a friend’s beach house on Point of Rocks, Siesta Key, Sarasota for a week or so each summer.  Mostly, we’d just lay around, make our own food, take long […]