The Desk Book Club: ‘Food in Cuba’ March Discussion

How do we strike the right balance between necessity and joy?

I woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday recalling a statistic and wondering whether it was a dream, or just apocryphal. Upon getting out of bed, I did a search for it: If everyone in the world lived like the average Cuban, we would be able to sustain life on this one planet earth. It was real, if perhaps based on faulty science depending on the s…