Atlas Obscura
This Chef Is Redefining Cuban Comfort Food From a Kissimmee Food Truck
“All that we have learned has been, as we Cubans say, ‘ a golpe .’” Amanda Melendez is explaining the success of her food truck in Kissimmee, Florida, and it’s quickly becoming clear that her popularity did not come by accident: It was forged out of fire. “A golpe” literally means “by blows,” and when Melendez says she learned that way, she means that she did so through struggle or sheer force…