Marshal’s Corner » Coffee [ Michigan]

Naomi and I recently met an old friend of mine at the Coffee Bean in Berkley Michigan ! It was cold but he brought along a few cigars , we sat outside at a snow covered table and drank and puffed ! Coffee always tastes good in the open air, and I said to him ,”Remember How good the Coffee was in Cuba!”  He said Marshal: we drank coffee in Cuba 53 years ago when we were both 19 years old ! So what I still remember, how it tasted and smelled ! Bull shit: that’s like telling a restaurant owner his  chicken soup doesn’t taste as good as your grandmothers !   No: listen to me when I go on vacations to Arizona and eat at my friend Gilberto Hernandez’s Havana Cafe we have Coffee Con Leche and  talk about  El Mambo and Tropicana !  El Mambo was a great day house but your memory is not that good !  Listen he say’s  name one tune they played at Tropicana and I buy the next cup !  A Day house is A house of Ill Repute !  I mention only in passing Havana had art ,music, great food and topography second to none and very kind people ! I wish I could visit again Puede Ser ! cafe con leche-based beverage, which translated from Spanish, literally means “coffee with milk”. Similar to the French café au lait and the Italian caffè e latte, café con leche is a Spanish coffee beverage consisting of strong or bold coffee (sometimes espresso) mixed with scalded milk in anywhere from a 1:1 to 2:1 ratio. It is also served with sugar mixed according to taste. The beverage is extremely common in Spain and in many Latin American countries and communities around the world. In the Cuban bastion of Tampa, Florida, café con leche is a local staple.