Learn to make the Columbia Restaurant's iconic Cuban sandwich.
How can a simple sandwich ignite such controversy? Well, when it's the Cuban sandwich, and we're in Florida, there is a bitter battle for the title ofwho had it firstandwho makes it the best.
WUSF's food podcast, The Zest, speaks with fifth-generation Columbia owner Andrea Gonzmart Williams about the hotly contested sandwich. She dishes the recipe and shares why to her, "there's nothing controversial about it."
Regardless of which side of the aisle you find yourself in, consider adding a Cuban sandwich to your Fourth of July picnic. With ingredients representing Florida's immigrant communities, it's as American as apple pie.
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