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 ...

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 ...

In one way of looking at it, a cuisine’s simplest dish sometimes is its most difficult to cook. When I was a restaurant critic, for example, and if the place that I was reviewing prepared it, I always ...

We decided to round up all the ways Latin America refers to the dish, from corn-based tamales to plantain-based pasteles.

This isn’t a music posting, but you will have to forgive me. This is Christmas Eve and I’m nostalgic for traditions that relate to family, food and friends. I was raised in Puerto Rico, where the big ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Sometime during the beginning of November in ...

You didn’t hear this from me. Not far from the geographic center of our island home, tucked inside an unremarkable strip center where you’d never think to look, there is a woman — perhaps the only ...

“If you travel, and COVID doesn’t kill you, I will,” said my mother, on the phone from 3,000 miles away. “Stay put.” It had been decades since we’d spent Christmas apart, but now she was ordering me, ...

Each January, Iowans all over the state face a similar dilemma. Our New Year's resolutions reflect the best of intentions, to make healthier and more mindful decisions during meal time. Meanwhile, the ...