Lechon Quotes

He had been waiting a long time for a chance to come to this place. Years earlier he had spent a good bit of time in Florida on a serial case and the only good that had come out of it was his love of Cuban food. When he later transferred to the Los Angeles field office it was hard to find a Cuban restaurant that compared with the places where he had eaten in Ybor City outside of Tampa. Once on an L.A. case he’d come across a patrol cop who he learned was of Cuban descent. McCaleb asked him where he went to eat when he wanted real home cooking. The cop’s answer was El Cochinito. And McCaleb quickly became a regular. McCaleb decided that studying the menu was a waste of time because he had known all along what he wanted. Lechon asada with black beans and rice, fried bananas and yucca on the side and don’t bother telling the doctor.

asar unos pollitos tiernos, con espárragos de azules primaverales y moscatel rosado (en callampas), y Juan Carrasco, de Til Til, esos cabritos o esos chanchitos lechones que se agrandan tanto con el aullido invernal, acompañándose por la cebolla clandestinamente brotada y la aceituna reciente o ausente, «divinamente» saboreada, «vinosamente», saboreada, cuando el gato de los tejados tocando su rabel mojado, acalora a las señoritas en la cama rosada, las cuales sollozan y suspiran demasiado y bastante en acariciándose la propia belleza.