RECIPE FOR A CUBAN NEW YEAR
For a Feliz Año Nuevo Cuban style, apply the following to your New Year’s party.
Start with the obligatory beans, yucca, rum, and beer. Add an entire leg of a pig, called lechón asado. Add a desert called Turron.
And…
At midnight, the cannons will start going off at the castle. Twenty one thundering detonations registering deep in your chest. Why don’t we have cannons, people?
Start pouring water off the balcony (which you will have gotten ready beforehand)
This rids all the bad stuff from last year.
Then ring the bell. Pass it around. (I know bells are fun, but don’t get greedy like this guy)
While the bell goes around, shake the men’s hands and kiss the girls, saying, “¡Felicidades!”
Then dance until your toes go gangrene. That’s a Cuban New Year.