The Famous”Three Musketeers” Dish Returns to Cuban Hospitals

The Famous"Three Musketeers" Dish Returns to Cuban Hospitals / Wendy
Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
Translator: Unstated, Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

This note has nothing to do with the famous adventure of "The Three
Musketeers." Nor with any of its characters.

For those of us who have opted at some moment in our lives for
institutional learning. The mere fact of mentioning this phrase might
bring back memories and spark all those stories, that we've told on more
than one occasion.

"The Three Musketeers" is an infamous dish made famous in Cuba in the
decade known as "the Special Period" if we can talk that way about one
of the most difficult periods Cubans have ever lived through. The dish
was made up of cooked white rice, porridge of peas, and a boiled egg.

In actuality this well-known dish has been forgotten by many Cubans,
unless they've had medical reasons to pass through the maternal hospital
in the city of Santa Clara during the last week.

The adventure is repeating itself and now this Villa Clara hospital is
the chosen site for the staging of the scene. The sad case is that for
many this dish, on this occasion, is enjoyed by women who are pregnant,
nursing mothers and mothers who recently underwent caesarians.

Now a new product has been added to the plate, and that's boiled green
banana.

October 22 2012

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