At Chez Henri in Cambridge, chef-owner Paul O'Connell reflects on his trip last spring to Cuba with sopa de calabaza, pumpkin soup with curried lobster and mussels, and with Cuban-style chicken empanadas on the bar menu.
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Look a little closer and you'll see lovely things wonderfully inventive such as sopa de flor de calabaza, or squash flower soup, and mole, which calls for any combination of peanuts, chocolate, chiles, sesame or pumpkin seeds and raisins.
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As we walked, we passed the cement zocalo, or town square-- behind which sprawls a bustling, tarp-covered mercado, selling fresh produce and delicious quick meals ( like quesadillas stuffed with flor de calabaza, or yellow squash flowers ).
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The flower ( squash blossom, " flor de calabaza " ), is used as an ingredient in " quesadillas, empanadas " and other dishes in Mexican cuisine and New Mexican cuisine, and in " pupusas " in Salvadoran cuisine.
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Based on genetic allele analysis, two distinct groups occur within " C . pepo " : pumpkin, calabaza, criolla, and marrow squash are in one; and ornamental gourds, crookneck, acorn, scallop, and a few others in the second one . " C . fraterna " is genetically closer to the first group and " C . texana " is genetically closer to the second group.
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La orquesta es realmente nativa y consiste en un tipo que toca un clarinete de bamb?de unos cuatro pies de largo, semejante a una gaita, con cinco huecos, por donde escapa el sonido; otro que toca un instrumento parecido, provisto de cuatro huecos, para los que solo usa la mano derecha, pues en la izquierda tiene una calabaza peque�a llena de piedrecillas, o sea una maraca, con la que marca el ritmo.
