Luis' recipe for arroz con pollo (chicken with rice). It's a traditional dish throughout Latin America and a close cousin of paella. Recently, he made this and as we took our first bites, there was a collective hush across the dinner table. The saffron. The rice. The chicken. ...

Luis' Cuban Black Beans Photography by Chia ChongStyling by Libbie Summers In this strange age of social distancing, our family, like many others across the world, is tighter than ever before. Homeschooling while working from home can be challenging, yes, but we also have more uninterrupted time to...

PRAISE FOR LEOPOLD'S ICE CREAM “Though Stratton ventured to Hollywood to become a successful film producer for more than four decades, traveling to far reaches of the world, he never forgot his roots…The Leopold’s story is the embodiment of the American Dream across two generations. I salute Leopold’s...

On a recent Wednesday night my husband Luis was hit with a craving for bizcocho, the sponge cake he grew up eating with a heaping scoop of vanilla at Coppelia, Havana’s "ice-cream cathedral." Lucky for us, he whipped up his own take on it filled with a layer...