The town is quaint in that ceramic-roof, cane-rocker-on-the-porch kind of way and the hospitality of Cuban guajiros (countryfolk) is unsurpassed.

BBC: Day trips from Havana

David Brooks, one of America's finest political commentators, suggested years ago that his countryfolk lived life in the future tense.

BBC: Change America can believe in

Still, it's hard to exaggerate the effect that Thor and a growing band of capitalists have had on their countryfolk.

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What follows is a quixotic quest for the recipes that give good countryfolk and doubtless Mr Barlow ample waistlines and cheerful characters.

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