OK, so we are at my wife\u2019s Uncle Richard\u2019s talking about blogging and the latest blog of the Cuban bread, when right in the middle of the conversation, my phone beeps signaling the arrival of an email. It reads,<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to go back to Ybor City to La Segunda Central Bakery on 22nd.\u00a0My grandfather’s family still runs the bakery (The More’s) and they put the palm frond in it to this day. It is the only bread the Columbia Restaurant will use for ALL its restaurants, so if you go to the Columbia in St. Augustine, try it and if you don’t like it – I’ll take it off your hands!!! It’s the only white bread I still eat! We’ll be at Richard’s tonight.\u00a0 Hope to pop in and see you. Sharon.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, I respond with,<\/p>\n
\u201cI am sitting and talking with your in-laws right now. And we are talking about Cuban bread!\u201d<\/p>\n
Moments later, Sharon and Ken stop in to visit with his parents and talk with us. We enjoyed a great evening, talking about everything from Cuban bread to new babies born into the family to old babies who were no longer babies but now little kids to The Owl Hoot Trail Trilogy<\/em> by T.H. Bear <\/a>to Ken\u2019s Cessna Cardinal and my 170.<\/p>\n Then, at the invite of Richard and Anti, we start into dinner of roasted Cuban pork, salad, and Cuban bread. Over dinner, we talk more of Tampa from the old times, the bakeries that are gone, the old buildings that have disappeared, and of an era in Tampa history that is no more and never will be again.<\/p>\n Tampa is truly a different place today than what it was when my mother moved here in 1959. At that time, it was almost a sleepy little town. Today, the area containing St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Tampa is a huge metropolis.<\/p>\n Since my family arrived, it has changed tremendously. This city does not resemble the one I grew up in throughout the last four decades of the last century. I cannot imagine what my father-in-law and his brother, Richard, and their wives, have witnessed over the time since they were born here.<\/p>\n If you get a chance, get to Tampa and go over to either La Segunda Central Bakery or the Columbia Restaurant for some authentic Cuban bread. You will very much enjoy the experience.<\/p>\n What a very pleasant evening… Ardy and I really enjoyed the time with all of you.<\/p>\n -30-<\/p>\n \u00a92010 J. Clark<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so we are at my wife\u2019s Uncle Richard\u2019s talking about blogging and the latest blog of the Cuban bread, when right in the middle of the conversation, my phone beeps signaling the arrival of an email. It reads, \u201cYou … Continue reading