You Got To Cuba, Now Where To Eat? (PRI’s The World)

There are many delicious culinary options available on the menus in Havana. Black beans, rice, plantains, picadillo (a dish made of ground beef, olives and raisins) — you can have them all in Cuba. But I made some of my more surprising food discoveries in paladares — restaurants in people’s homes. They started in the 1990s, when the Cuban government allowed private businesses to open. Listen to my report here: