This Chef Is Redefining Cuban Comfort Food From a Kissimmee Food Truck

This Chef Is Redefining Cuban Comfort Food From a Kissimmee Food Truck

“All that we have learned has been, as we Cubans say, ‘a golpe.’” Amanda Melendez is explaining the success of her food truck in Kissimmee, Florida, and it’s quickly becoming clear that her popularity did not come by accident: It was forged out of fire. “A golpe” literally means “by blows,” and when Melendez says she learned that way, she means that she did so through struggle or sheer force of will. It would be easy to forget this while salivat…