Like many other celebrities, Gordon Ramsay seems to be completely ignorant of the reality and misery of life in communist Cuba. Ramsay has apparently bought into the regime’s propaganda that today’s Cuba is the real home of Cuban culture and food. In reality, it is the Castro family dictatorship’s slave plantation, where almost all of Cuba’s rich history and culture has been destroyed. Lucky for him, there’s no shortage of Cubans to educate him.
Authentic Cuban food is basically nonexistent in Cuba today. If Gordon Ramsay wants to find some real and authentic Cuban food, he needs to come to Miami.
Gordon Ramsay Seeks Genuine Cuban Cuisine: Locals Weigh In
British chef Gordon Ramsay recently visited Havana in search of authentic Cuban cuisine, sparking a flurry of reactions on social media. His show, “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,” will feature an episode dedicated to Cuba. Although the scenes have already been filmed, Cubans are keen to ensure that the chef experiences the true essence of their local culinary culture.
Local Recommendations for Gordon Ramsay
Here are some recommendations that Cubans have left for Gordon Ramsay for his next visit:
- “Bring everything, including the apron.” The suggestion is straightforward: he should be prepared for any eventuality. In a country where improvisation is the norm due to food shortages, the chef should bring all the ingredients, utensils, and even fuel if he wants to cook.
- “Visit homes to see real Cuban culinary invention.” They invite the chef to visit families to see how the lack of food forces them to reinvent and create dishes without basic products like eggs, milk, fats, wheat flour, meat, or fish.
- “Live on 3,500 CUP for a month.” The economic challenge involves making food for several people every day. Many Cubans have asked the chef to take on a “full immersion,” daring him to live on the basic salary to understand the limitations and challenges of finding food in Cuba.
- “Come to Miami. The authentic Cuban cuisine has emigrated.” Several users highlight the phenomenon of emigration, with traditional flavors and dishes finding new life in the diaspora, in cities like Miami. The chef has already featured a program in the Florida Keys.
- “Cook at Raúl Castro’s house.” Cubans sarcastically suggest that Ramsay would need to visit the homes of political figures to find ingredients.
- “Make a good dish with moringa and marabú charcoal.” This request has a touch of humor but also reflects a very real situation. Thousands of Cuban families, lacking milk or bread, only have moringa tea for breakfast before going to work.
- “Visit Miguel Díaz-Canel to scavenge for food.” This advice includes that during his stay in Cuba, the chef should drink lemonade to discover “the foundation of everything.”
- “Learn to fry without oil, make meat without meat, rice without rice, and beans without beans.” In Cuba, he will need to demonstrate his true culinary skills because there will be times when he won’t even have a pinch of salt.
- Look beyond what the government allows him to see. “You came to the wrong place to experiment, as people like you are not shown the real dishes of current Cuban kitchens,” said one reader.
This comment subtly highlights the government’s control over the image projected of Cuba in international media, the strictness with which they conduct visits of prominent figures, and the media manipulation surrounding these issues that reflect the quality of life in Cuba.
Many people expressed skepticism about whether Ramsay will be able to witness the deprivation, shortages, and precariousness of current Cuban cuisine and reflect it in his show.
“It’s so disappointing to see an internationally renowned chef looking for ‘authentic Cuban food’ in a country dying of hunger and misery!” lamented one user.
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Looks like a comemierda, which he probably is. Unless, of course, he’s worse.
I think this is an example, albeit a very minor one, of a much broader and bigger problem, a kind of “logic” implicitly employed by numerous foreigners but rarely if ever explicitly stated, as discussed below:
https://babalublog.com/wpr/wp-admin/post.php?post=243504&action=edit
To summarize it briefly, the idea is that Cuba is as it should be, and its people are where and how they belong. And, if one believes that, then there is no real problem with the status quo on the island. Thus, we have one instance after another of what appears to be the blithe cluelessness of people like Ramsay.
I’m pretty sure that Gordon Ramsay didn’t decide to go to Cuba of his own choice, but rather the regime’s PR machinery reached out to his production company and encouraged them. They do this all of the time. I remember how years ago they reached out to some British noble who is a descendant of the Earl of Amberle who took siege of Havana in 1762 to go to Cuba on the anniversary of the siege, another time when they opened the Napoleonic Museum, they reached out to some French princess who is a descendant of Napoleon, and of course, they used to use Cardinal Jaime Ortega to go to the Vatican and encourage the pope du jour to go to Cuba. And who can forget when that hideous chef Bourdain went to Cuba or Prince Charles and Camila, etc…?
As long as the regime is in power and the exile community has nothing akin to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, these little publicity stunts will continue. If the regime spends money on anything, its on its public relations/propaganda arm.
It’s perfectly plausible that Ramsay or his employer was approached by Castro, Inc., but having the choice to take it or leave it, it was taken. It still comes down to seeing Cuba through a highly distorted lens which “normalizes” its situation and thus makes this sort of collaboration seem OK.
“It’s perfectly plausible that Ramsay or his employer was approached by Castro, Inc., but having the choice to take it or leave it, it was taken. It still comes down to seeing Cuba through a highly distorted lens which “normalizes” its situation and thus makes this sort of collaboration seem OK.”–Asombra
Asombra,
In case there is an iota of doubt, I’m not defending or making excuses for any of these vile people who go to Cuba and do unwitting propaganda for the regime. That said, you are right, they are looking at Cuba through a highly distorted lens. And you know why? Because the regime has done its work. With its Goebbelian propaganda apparatus, it spends millions of dollars making Cuba look like a land of endless sun, beach, old cars, and odd, but picturesque black women with red handkerchiefs on their heads and cigars in their mouths prancing all around. Conversely, the exile community has been turned into a caricature, the closet things to Nazis, the vile “Miami Mafia.”
People really think that Cuba was something out of the Godfather II. They don’t know that we had the highest per capita income in Latin America after oil rich Venezuela and think that castro helped us rise up from wretched poverty.
We in the exile community have not done anything to effectively counter that. We have allowed the archdiocese of Miami to be taken over our enemies, we have a newspaper in Miami that we could have purchased, instead the Miami Herald is owned by people hostile to us, we sold the local TV and radio stations to Mexico, we let some Mexican leftist academician take over the Center for Cuban Studies at FIU and Jorge Mas Santos destroyed CANF. We don’t have an antidefamation league,
After 60 years of exile, we have not learned how to effectively fight against the regime that continues to run circles around us. That’s why people like this chef are going to Cuba.
No doubt we could have done better, but the game has always been rigged. The Left will do whatever it takes to advance its agenda, even against its own people (meaning native nationals). Thus, what would it not be prepared to do against an uppity immigrant minority which refuses to join its plantation and which it despises? And yes, Castro, Inc. has done its job, but it has always had a VERY receptive audience, which has made that job far easier than ours.
As a Non Cuban American, JUSTICE FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE! No one should go to that hellhole until the Cuban people are free and it’s no longer a Hellhole.. I hate Castro’s Regime. They’re just a bunch of oppressors in my mind.
And actress Ana de Armas, baseball player Yoan Moncada (Chicago White Sox) and many other celebrities and athletes.