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 ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic robbed them of their jobs. A traditional Puerto Rican holiday staple put them back in business. Five enterprising women have turned a holiday labor of love — the time-honored and ...

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.