Cuba on ice. Naturally it is served in cocktails at the beach bar. But for the islands residents, keeping things in a cold, solid state is a matter of survival and constitutes a daily struggle. Refrigerators are passed down from one generation to another, meticulously maintained and restored. They form the center of the household and confront their owners with the energy woes of a land that finds itself isolated at the end of the Cold War, no longer able to trade sugar for oil: Ice is civilization.—Anonymous