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Columbia Restaurant's Cuban Sandwich: As American as Apple Pie

The Columbia Restaurant's Cuban sandwich packs big flavor, with a side of controversy.
Columbia Restaurant Group
The Columbia Restaurant's Cuban sandwich packs big flavor, with a side of controversy.
The Columbia Restaurant's Cuban sandwich packs big flavor, with a side of controversy.
Credit Columbia Restaurant Group
The Columbia Restaurant's Cuban sandwich packs big flavor, with a side of controversy.

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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Dalia Colón is excited to return to WUSF as producer of the Zest podcast. From 2010 to 2014, Dalia covered health and features for WUSF. Before that, she was a staff reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and Cleveland Magazine.