If there is one good thing that’s come from the current situation in the F&B industry, it is solid home cooking. The better thing is the exposure to various cuisines people ate growing up.
Raymond Gonzalez of Casa Panza. (Photos: Siroj Pairomahakij)
Enter Casa Panza, Cuban deliciousness by Raymond Gonzalez. The pandemic hit my tutoring business hard. I had nothing to do, so I would have friends over and cook for them. One crazy night, on November 24 last year, I created an Instagram account for the ‘tummy house’ aka Casa Panza. There was a need at my end, to start anew and this was it. Before the pandemic, there was a big push for Spanish food. It gave me the opportunity to say, ‘Okay, Spanish food is big, but let me see if I can bring Cuban food, which has many similarities to Spanish food, into that corner’.”
Gonzalez isn’t new to the F&B…
