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Jon Manteca Cabañes, better known as Cojo Manteca (Manteca, the cripple) (Mondragón, Guipúzcoa, 1967 - Orihuela, Alicante, May 25, 1996), was a person elevated to media icon in the late 1980s in Spain after the publication of photographs and videos that showed him smashing street furniture in a student demonstration in January 1987.
"Manteca" is one of the earliest foundational tunes of Afro-Cuban jazz. Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie , Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie's recordings (along with the earlier " A Night in Tunisia ") and is "one of the most important records ever made in the United States", according to Gary Giddins of ...
[4] There is a type of cake known as mantecada in Colombia and Venezuela where the whole is cut into pieces after baking. [5] Certain brands commercialize packed mini-mantecadas in Mexico and Latin America. [6] Mantecadas should not be confused with mantecados, a much denser, non spongy very different type of pastry.