Like many Puerto Rican matriarchs, my abuela was notorious for reusing branded food containers to store anything. The biggest containers were usually giant tubs of butter filled with a fresh, green ...

This is a one-dish quick and easy dinner. Chicken and rice made with Puerto Rican sofrito is the secret to this dish. Sofrito is a seasoning sauce used in many Spanish, Caribbean and Latin American ...

Sofrito is the a cooking technique that ties much of Latin America together. Plus, it's vegan and heart-healthy. Here's everything you need to know. “It’s the one technique that really identifies the ...

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.

For documentarian and cookbook author Von Diaz, these smoky simmered beans capture all the flavors of her Puerto Rican childhood—and a lifetime of exploration in the kitchen. Puerto Rican-born and ...