One holiday dish you can expect to find in most Boricua and Dominican households are pasteles. Traditionally made with grated root vegetables to create the plantain base called masa and filled with ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The 12 days of Christmas continue for many Central Florida Puerto Rican families as they cook traditional meals from their island. There are two famous meals many Puerto Ricans say can ...

Alcapurrias, pasteles, empanadillas, and other Puerto Rican food staples are the secret to José “DJ Funky Joe” Vallenilla mission: “fool carnivores” with a plant-based menu. The radio host turned ...

Growing up, pasteles were a special treat that we didn't get often. A savory pie of sorts, they're typically eaten during the holidays in Puerto Rican households. While my mom usually hosted Christmas ...

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Puerto Rican pasteles, like the excellent ones served at the Freakin Rican in Queens, are “a project, not a quick fix,” Oswald Rivera writes in his 2002 cookbook, Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes.

Pasteles and pernil are how I define Puerto Rican Christmas. And although pork is a fixture on the Puerto Rican table, it is just not Christmas without pernil. When I was growing up, we’d celebrate at ...

It is true that the bacalaitos at the Freakin Rican in Astoria, Queens, are not quite as big around as the ones you will see browning in veritable caldrons of oil over wood fires at kiosks scattered ...