On Aug 28, 12:57*pm, Alex Corvinus > wrote:

> Have to agree with Lynn. When I was down at Tulane (and got sick in
> that 1957 flu epidemic), one of the dorms was turned into a flu ward.
> In those pre-Castro days, we had a lot of Cuban students. Some them
> showed the Creole cooks how to make Cuban picadillo and this NJ boy
> learned to love that stuff then and there! I wasn't wild about the
> raisins, but the olives were a great set-off for the meat, much in the
> way olives work in Huachinango Veracruzana (Yucatecan cooking).
> Huachinango is snapper, but the technique also works with shrimp.
>
> HTH
>
> Alex

I'll have to set aside some to put olives in.