This marinated and slow-roasted pork shoulder is often the star of just about any Puerto Rican holiday party or family gathering, but the features that make it such a perfect recipe for entertaining ...

Pernil is one of many tasty Puerto Rican foods that you have to try at least once. However, since it's considered Puerto Rico's national dish, it's good enough that you may want to move it closer to ...

Credit: Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe Growing up in New York, I was very fortunate to experience the city's amazing culinary ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A few years ago, while living among the Denver diaspora in Chicago, I learned the basics of this recipe from a man in the Pilsen neighborhood there. It is a ...

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 ...

My memories of Puerto Rico, a place I visited often as a young child, come back to me in flashes: The grassy, breezy farm my great-grandmother lived on, chickens clucking all around. Bumpy rides down ...

In a mortar smash all garlic cloves and 1 Tbs of salt. Add lemon juice and oregano and 2 cups of Mojo criollo mix and blend. Make slits in your pork shoulder and sprinkle about 3 table spoons of the ...

In fall 1985, with Thanksgiving looming, my mother prepared for her 20 guests as if Jesus and his disciples were coming over. She bought dishware, glassware, linens, gold-plated cutlery and even a ...

In addition to her duties as pastor of Mision Cristiana el Faro in Lorain, Crucia Marrero is also a talented cook, especially with Puerto Rican dishes. As part of the Christian Temple Disciples of ...

And other vegetarian and vegan centerpieces that will impress all of your guests. By Tanya Sichynsky Growing up, when I would visit my Abueti, she would often greet me with a little sheet pan of ...