Thanks for sharing the article — I would never have come across it!
I wonder if there were a specific restaurant in each place that claimed credit for invention, would they be in a court battle like the butter chicken folks in India 
— instead of the very mature “Although Tampa and Miami frequently bicker over which is the “home of the Cuban sandwich,” Huse maintains there was never a Frankenstein moment when someone piled a combination of meats and other ingredients between slices of bread, pressed it in an old plancha , christened it a “Cuban,” and sent it staggering out into the world.
The story of the bread was lovely, and very reminiscent of a story someone posted a while back about banh mi rolls .
