Cuban Stories on The Green Plantain

There are friendships that last a lifetime, and the featured snippet from A-Z with Mona P is a memory of happy coincidences and two women who have found kinship in the world of storytelling and podcas...

19 Apr 14min

Growing up in a Cuban household, we often heard the phrase “!Qué arroz con mango!” —What a mango with rice! …referring to things that are a mess, thrown together, mixed up, orsomething that doesn’t go...

19 Mar 13min

What would you do if you were a kid and you wanted to chew gum but didn't have any? I mean, there were none to purchase!Would you find an alternative?...find out how Aileen Vega, siblings, and cousins...

27 Feb 9min

Welcome to Cuban Stories: Episode 131 – The Winding Road. A story from the book, Brave Water —It’s never too late to learnto swim or to begin again. A Story of new beginnings and the joy of life.#TheG...

19 Jan 4min

Welcome to Cuban Stories: Episode 130 – A Christmas of Uncertainty and Fear. The story of a Cuban man caught in the immigration web of uncertainty....#TheGreenPlantainpodcast#TheCubanStoriesProjectpod...

23 Des 20256min

Dual Language Welcome to Cuban Stories: Episode 129 – Being Thankful. Pausing to give thanks for a life lived in these United States....#TheGreenPlantainpodcast #TheCubanStoriesProjectpodcast #Cubanst...

21 Nov 20259min

Welcome to Cuban Stories: Episode 128– The Spirit of Halloween, a short story about the childhood memory of my friend Aileen Vega and her first Halloween…with a short musical addition at the end of th...

22 Okt 20256min

Please note this episode was recorded in the woods of Custer State Park in South Dakota...so you may hear the rustling of the trees or birds

2 Okt 20258min