Por Danay Galletti
Havana, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuban culinary professionals work hard to include the island s cuisine as a cultural and tourist attraction, and to do so, they promote the idea of creating a gastronomic route and giving visibility to local ingredients.
Cuban cuisine has been largely influenced by its native people, Spanish and African cultures and to a lesser extent by Haitian, Chinese, Italian, American, Mexican and French influence. The resulting mixture is what characterizes Cuban cuisine s authentic flavors. The aromas that motivated renowned Cuban historian Don Fernando Ortiz to affirm that Cuba is a melting pot stem from that rich mixture, said the president of the Cuban Culinary Federation (FCC), Chef Eddy Fernandez Monte.