New York Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker came to Cuba on Monday armed with steaks, wine, cheesecake and a feast of other products from his state, as one of America's top food producers looks to crack the communist-run island's food-import market.
But in case all that food doesn't whet Cuba's appetite, New York is betting baseball might.
Hooker, leading the state's first official trade mission to Cuba, also brought an engraved wooden Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. bat and presented it to Pedro Alvarez, chairman of Cuba's food import company, Alimport.
"I think it's only fitting that you see here and now one of the great forest products …
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