A few months back, Eater had an article about the paladares, or underground restaurants, in Cuba.
Using the meager ingredients the government rationed out, Cubans started serving “survival fare” at these small, private restaurants that popped up inside homes in Havana and other cities across the country.
One owner described how the supply market came to her. “The ingredients found me,” she says. “When word got out we had a restaurant, strangers came knocking on our door selling anything from lobster to chicken to floor mops. They sold to survive; I bought to survive.”
A great story about "an underground subculture that eventually went mainstream out of necessity".
Using the meager ingredients the government rationed out, Cubans started serving “survival fare” at these small, private restaurants that popped up inside homes in Havana and other cities across the country.
One owner described how the supply market came to her. “The ingredients found me,” she says. “When word got out we had a restaurant, strangers came knocking on our door selling anything from lobster to chicken to floor mops. They sold to survive; I bought to survive.”
A great story about "an underground subculture that eventually went mainstream out of necessity".
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