In 2022, pre-orders for my cookbook, Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook, started to roll in. In parallel, I noticed a lot of social media cooks—who were not Puerto Rican—using adobo in their recipes ...

Asian Sofrito is a special place, where you can order General Tso's Chicken with a side of syrupy sweet plantains. The idea of eating Chinese and Latin foods together on the same plate seems a little ...

On a recent visit to Puerto Rican Street Cuisine, I felt as if I had stumbled upon a small piece of the island in Oakland. Families seated on the sidewalk crunched on dark brown morsels of chicken ...

The black rooster was replaced by a green frog — a sword-wielding, Puerto Rican ninja amphibian. It left more than a few taco fiends crowing in confusion. If this is beginning to sound like a passage ...

For every Puerto Rican, says Crocante Restaurant chef/owner Yamuel Bigio, Día de Reyes is a special day. “It’s not celebrated as much in the United States,” he explains, “but I think for every Puerto ...