Cubano
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I sampled the Cubano sandwich for lunch and ordered chocolate-chip cookies to go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“The guava cheese, the guava pastries and the Cubano sandwich; those are three things that we said, ‘We know we cannot open without these,’” Cornell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Café Habana, which at its location in the NoLIta neighborhood of Manhattan sells Mexican-style grilled corn and a Cubano sandwich with chipotle mayonnaise, has opened branches in Malibu and Tokyo.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
A block south of El Cubano sits Good Burger, which also does fish and chips and other fried noshes that you would find at a fish shack.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Meaning that tomorrow her uncle, Charley Lyons, the direct descendant of the Cubano cabin boy Eduardo Leones, was going to “make his ancestors very, very proud.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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“We have to keep up the good fight,” said Sergio de Paz, head of the Cuban exile group Cubanos Desterrados.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Nearby Georgetown Deli and Market, formerly Hitchcock Deli, offers a dozen sandwich-and-salad options including Cubanos and meatballs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
They served Cubanos and café con leche to workers from the diamond district.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
That day, a chef and a language teacher sat eating Cubanos and talking “about good women, about bad women, about everything,” said Kristopher Pabón, the teacher.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
The "Cubanos" are the descendants of Spanish colonists, who have inhabited the island for at least two generations.
From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey
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