Casabe, Cuba’s little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

Casabe, Cuba’s little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

QUIVICÁN, Cuba (AP) — When Julio César Núñez was a child, he helped his grandmother make casabe from scratch, using artisanal tools — and an ancient c...

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

QUIVICAN, Cuba (AP) -- When Julio Cesar Nunez was a child, he helped his grandmother make casabe from scratch, using artisanal tools -- and an ancient cooking method -- to turn grated yuca root into a thin, white, crispy flatbread.

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

QUIVICÁN, Cuba (AP) — When Julio César Núñez was a child, he helped his grandmother make casabe from scratch, using artisanal tools — and an ancient cooking method

Casabe, Cuba’s little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

QUIVICÁN, Cuba (AP) — When Julio César Núñez was a child, he helped his grandmother make casabe from scratch, using artisanal tools — and an ancient cooking method — to turn grated yuca root into a thin, white, crispy flatbread. Today, Núñez, 80, and a younger generation of family members in this town south of Havana, continue the tradition of harvesting and preparing casabe the ancestral way, but it’s no longer just for their own consumption. T…

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press QUIVICÁN, Cuba (AP) — Cuba is leading a delegation of Caribbean nations, including Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Honduras and Haiti, to formally request UNESCO to add casabe, a little-known ancestral flatbread made of yuca, cassava, to the organization’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The goal is to get casabe the recognition it deserves as one of Cuba’s oldest dishes and to protect the millenary trad…

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

Cuba is leading a delegation of Caribbean nations, including Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Honduras and Haiti, to formally request UNESCO to add casabe, a little-known ancestral flatbread made of yuca, cassava, to the organization's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The goal…