The making of Puerto Rican pasteles, a traditional holiday treat. The tamale-like treats are popular during the holidays, and even more so since Hurricane Maria pummeled the island. (Jessica Emily ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The 12 days of Christmas continue for many Central Florida Puerto Rican families as they cook traditional meals from their island. There are two famous meals many Puerto Ricans say can ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... En alcapurrias, pasteles, empanadillas y otros manjares de la cocina puertorriqueña, José “Funky Joe” Vallenilla esconde un secreto para “engañar a ...

For many Puerto Ricans, Christmastime is pasteles season. Come November, many of us are already thinking about how we’re going to score our pasteles, a complicated, labor-intensive holiday dish.

Don’t be fooled by the green engagement rock, Jenny's still enjoying the glorious foods from the block. On Nov. 30, Vogue caught up with Jennifer Lopez in its latest installment of "73 Questions." In ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – Mama D’s Famous Pasteles is a local Puerto Rican food company that’s been around for decades. [Hawaii’s Breaking News–Download the FREE KHON2 app for iOS or Android] The company is ...

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.

It is true that the bacalaitos at the Freakin Rican in Astoria, Queens, are not quite as big around as the ones you will see browning in veritable caldrons of oil over wood fires at kiosks scattered ...