Rosa Porto, the baker and Cuban émigré who founded the popular Porto’s Bakery & Café chain in Southern California with her family, died Friday, according to the business’s Instagram page. “I learned by breaking eggs and from necessity,” Rosa Porto was quoted in the Times as saying. After years on a wait list, Porto and her family were allowed to leave Cuba in the early 1970s. The bakery became famous for Cuban cakes and pastries, meat pies, potato balls, empanadas, and guava-and-cheese strudels. In her late 60s, according to the company’s Instagram post Saturday, Rosa Porto stepped back from the business “to focus her love and passion on raising her seven grandchildren.”Advertisement“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Porto’s Bakery founder and Porto family matriarch, Rosa Porto,” the post said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 15, 2019 03:22 UTC