WLRN HOLIDAYS: A collection of some of our favorite festive food stories
Festive Favorites: Black cake, a piquant feature of Caribbean holidays in South Florida
The heavenly, rum-soaked fruit confection called black cake is arguably the most important food fixture of any Caribbean Christmas celebration.
Festive Favorites: Forget the caja china, Miami — give hallacas a try this Nochebuena
The Venezuelan Christmas favorite hallaca, a tawny tamal swaddled in smoked banana leaves, is a tropical Yuletide epiphany for the taste buds, writes WLRN's Americas Editor Tim Padgett.
Festive Favorites: A special latkes recipe, from someone scared by all that oil
We revisit one of our festive favorites — when Alicia Zuckerman, then WLRN's editorial director, and her late friend Brett Rothfeld shared their favorite latkes (potato pancakes) recipe.
Festive Favorites: Why buñuelos are an inconic Navidad tradition
The buñuelo is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s generally unknown.
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Carlos Lopez/Everglades National ParkWinter is the perfect time to visit Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park, where new accommodations and a new tour catamaran named in honor of a key conservationist bring nature even closer. -
Rebecca Blackwell/APRubio is no friend of Havana − but does Trump’s pick for secretary of state mean Cuba policy is set?Rubio, who if confirmed by the Senate will also be the first Latino to hold the post, is one of the most hawkish members of Congress when it comes to the communist-run island. Indeed, one recent profile of Trump’s pick for top diplomat described Rubio as “Cuba’s worst nightmare.”
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In Florida, six of the nine existing incinerators are where the percentages of people of color are higher than the statewide average of 46%, according to the EPA. As Miami-Dade is experiencing, there is no perfect location to build a new one. -
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Fabio Ochoa, one of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel, has been deported back to the South American country, where he has walked free. Living in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution center for the cocaine cartel once headed by Pablo Escobar.
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