Pizza de Chorizo y Cebolla

Chorizo and Onion Pizza

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Eating Cuban

By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs

Published 2006

  • About

By 11 A.M., people in Havana have begun to gather in front of the outdoor pizza stand of Juan Carlos and his daughter Olga Lidia. The tantalizing aroma of hot fresh pizza draws hungry apartment dwellers from a nearby complex. The pizza craze in Cuba, as Juan Carlos explains, began in the 1950s with the opening in Havana of Montecatini, a pizza parlor named after the famous Italian resort city. For Juan Carlos, who was a teenager at the time, going to Montecatini