Although the first recipes for pasteles didn’t appear in cookbooks until the 1930s, food historian Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra notes that pasteles were mentioned as early as 1843 in the book El ...

Make Puerto Rican food from the likes of 2013 F&W Best New Chef Jose Enrique, 2019 F&W Best New Chef Kwame Onwuachi, and JJ Johnson. Ashley Day is Food & Wine's associate editorial director. She's ...

Pasteles are considered essential Christmas food in Puerto Rico but are very labor intensive. Preparation is reminiscent of masa-based tamales, with a soft vegetable-based dough shell wrapped and ...

21 Nochebuena Recipes From the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Beyond. For Latino families worldwide, it wouldn't be Christmas Eve without a tasty spread of traditional holiday flavors.

The Puerto Rican Christmas season is one of the longest in the world, starting just after Thanksgiving and stretching through to Dia de Los Reyes (Three Kings Day) on Jan. 6.

At some point next month, the café will also host a traditional parranda, a Puerto Rican Christmas celebration where people sing and play the guitar, along with maracas and “some other crazy ...