Meet Cuba’s best known food blogger

"The things I miss most are my family, brown bread , smoked salmon, the Examiner, Barry’s Tea and Butler’s milk chocolate. But sometimes not in that order. Potatoes are a rare commodity here and, when they’re in season, I mash like crazy! I miss my broccoli and cauli too!”

A graduate of Scoil Bride Primary, Coláisie Muire, universities in Cork (sociology and geography) and Dublin (botany and biochemistry ) and daughter of Wietse and Mary Buwalda of the Salve Marine Boatyard and Marina in Crosshaven, Tanja Buwelda stands surrounded by drab, grey, ex-Soviet military buildings in the middle of an urban garden in Havana at the start of one of her food tours.