If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.

When son first emerged in the streets of Havana, in the early twentieth century, it was shut down by the police, as were most forms of African culture. Son groups, conjuntos, caught playing on the street, as was the tradition, had their instruments confiscated.

The smoulder in his eyes dimmed, and he winced, half bending in agony.

In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.