The Definition of Soup in Cuba
Cuban plantain soup, recipe below
Cold weather makes me as a family cook want to prepare hearty dish like soup that warms my family up in a hurry. “Soup is always at the Cuban dinner-table; thick stuff that must be eaten rather than taken as a liquid,” said the Northern American traveler James W. Steele in 1881. He went on to say, “The word soup, as understood elsewhere, has no application in Cuba. It is rather in the form of mess [a sloppy preparation of food].
