Cuba's privately-owned restaurants, the "paladares" that have proliferated under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, will take part for the first time in Cuba's biggest culinary festival.
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Revellers in New Orleans celebrated Carnival and Mardi Gras with parades, giant floats and parties that were expected to attract about a million people to the city and its historic French Quarter and generate an estimated $300 million. FULL STORY