No matter how you feel about El Barbudo (the bearded one), who resigned from the Cuban presidency today after nearly 50 years in power, you can probably agree with this: Cuban sandwiches are awesome. Also known as the Cubano or medianoche, the sandwich is layered affair of ham, sliced roast pork, cheese pickles and mustard on sweet, submarine-like rolls. Cuban sandwiches were likely invented not in Havana, but by immigrants in South Florida, where many Cubans settled after the Revolution. They're basically a jazzed-up version of the ham and cheese sandwiches eaten by Cuban workers across the island for centuries.
These sandwiches can be served hot and gooey from a sandwich press (my fave), or cold like an ordinary sub. Try one of these for lunch with a mango batido (thin fruit milkshake) and dream of palm trees and vintage Cadillacs.
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2-19-2008 @ 10:50PM
Kim said...
Just an FYI.. the "medianoche" is actually just ham, pork and swiss sammy on Cuban bread made in a press. I know its a technicality - but a Cuban would say otherwise.
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2-19-2008 @ 11:31PM
kerosene said...
I've never had a Cuban sandwich without pickles - I think that's the best part!
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2-20-2008 @ 11:57AM
Ev said...
Not so.
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2-20-2008 @ 1:47PM
B said...
I'm not sure you'll find two Cubans that can agree on what a "medianoche" is...
This isn't authentic Cuban cuisine or anything, it's a sandwich, and you put whatever you want to eat on it. I make them with hot pickled peppers instead of sweet pickles, so nyaah.
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2-20-2008 @ 2:36PM
Chris said...
Are there that many ways to feel about Castro? The man was a dictator.
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2-20-2008 @ 3:13PM
kevin said...
Did you folks see my Death by Sandwich posts?
http://seriouslygood.kdweeks.com/2008/01/kill-ed-levine.html
http://seriouslygood.kdweeks.com/2008/02/death-by-sandwich-ii.html
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