Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
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Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Mar 15, 2023
MIAMI TO HAVANA. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR AND DIVIDED
It is one thing to be in a polemic country as USA which is divided right through the middle .. 50% fascist leaning and 50% wanting a just society and…
Oct 15, 2022
9 OCTOBER 2022 HAVANA 9 OCTOBER 1967 LA HIGUERA BOLIVIA AND VALLEGRANDE BOLIVIA
Just a short 50 years after the assassination of CHE Guevara, our world has become without morals, without principles and without justice and mountains of people without inner happiness. Americans…
Sep 15, 2022
OH HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO BE IN HAVANA CUBA OCTOBER 2022
For Hemingway the Moveable Feast was Paris and for me it is Havana. What makes Havana and for that matter all of Cuba make so special? Its people not only…
May 15, 2022
HOTEL SARATOGA IN HAVANA. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING . SUCH A SYMBOLIC TRAGEDY OF ELEGANCE OF HAVANA
PS PLEASE DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT CUBANS LIVING IN THE ISLAND BY YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH CUBAN EXPATRIATES IN MIAMI. Cubans (I always mean the Cubans who live…
Feb 15, 2022
MOVEABLE FEAST OR A FEAST THAT MOVES? PARIS HAVANA AND CAMBODIA
Once you are Paris for a while, you begin to understand what Ernest Hemingway meant by MOVEABLE FEAST Many of the places described in this book still stand and I…
Feb 15, 2022
AN INTERIM REPORT ON COVID TESTING IN SOME COUNTRIES so far nothing can hold a candle to LA PRADERA INTERNATIONAL CLINIC IN HAVANA CUBA .
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…
Oct 15, 2020
WELCOME ECO PASSENGER TUK TUK HAVANA WITH ITS ALL FEMALE CREW
Este lunes inició en La Habana la puesta en marcha del proyecto de triciclos eléctricos los cuales circularán en recorrido de dos rutas: desde la Terminal de Ómnibus hasta la…
Feb 15, 2020
CONTENT IN HAVANA . FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2020
I had a trip planned to South East Asia, and anyone who has read the News would admit that this is not the time for frivolous travel to the East.…
Dec 15, 2019
THE PRESENCE OF SUPERIOR FORCES : CHANGO 4 DEC 2019 HAVANA
Some had reminded us earlier that Cuba is the only country where the Europeans voluntarily adopted the African religion, while the vice versa (often forced) conversion of African people into…
Oct 15, 2019
SUNRISE SUNSET IN HAVANA CUBA 21.10.2019
On the way to the Malecon to watch the sunset, i was so happy to see this 1939 Ford and the friendly owners.. I stay just a hundred metres away…
Sep 15, 2019
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES MY LIFE IN HAVANA CUBA
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Sep 15, 2019
Oh HAVANA . WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WEEK SEPTEMBER 2019
On the day arrival, a family, an aunt, two nieces, the one below in her third of LAW studies arrived and we had a lovely dinner together and then followed…
Sep 15, 2019
HAVANA IS TRULY AN UNENDING FEAST: A DELIGHTFUL WEEK IN SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
Aug 15, 2019
GOING HOME TO HAVANA. FIRST LEG. AMSTERDAM TO LONDON TO MIAMI
I had arrived at Amsterdam Schipol Airport from Corinthia Corentin region of Austria the day before, four hours by train from its capital Klagenfort to Vienna and a short Austrian…
Aug 15, 2019
I AM LISTENING TO FARAMARZ ASLANI HAVING JUST ARRIVED IN MIAMI FROM HAVANA
Here I am in my sisters home in Miami , the evening is mild and I am listening to a new Iranian Singer to me, Faramarz Aslani and enjoying it…
Jul 15, 2019
MY LIFE IN HAVANA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/07/my-life-in-havana.html