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A popular Cuban joke: The Revolution's three great success stories: health Care, education and sports. It's three great failures: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I visited Cuba in the 90's and food shortages made for some interesting meals. The Cubans I met were remarkable people and Kurlansky really captures their spirit and the atmosphere of this crumbling tropical city.

An interesting meander through Havana: part history, party memoir, part sociology study, HAVANA: A SUBTROPICAL DELIRIUM is fascinating and easily readable, but ultimately I wanted the author to go into much more detail about the things he was writing about. However, I think it was a great book to dip your toes into if, like me, you are fascinated by Cuba.

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I was given this as a gift a long time ago, but I‘m only getting around to it now. The descriptions of the city are very evocative and I‘m constantly adding books to my to-read pile.

From the author of Salt and Cod - a city profile of Havana from multiple angles (history, race, religion, politics, music, trade, writers) from a writer who has loved it for decades.

Received this as a netgalley ARC and had many formatting issues on kindle and could not view the author's drawings. At one point, the author wants to make the point that Habaneros (a word he uses way too much) care a lot about baseball. His anecdote is that a pimp ignores his prostitute (which he twice emphasizes is a mulatto) that he is trying to offer to the author when a conversation about baseball ensues. Absolutely unnecessary and offensive.