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CUESA MARKET TO TABLE DEMO | SF FERRY BUILDING

Don’t forget to come and check out my market to table demo at the SF Ferry Building, with the help of CUESA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2017 –12:00PM TO 12:45PM Stop by the CUESA Classroom for a cooking...

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In Defense of Canned Foods: Puerto Rico Se Levanta

Read my piece about how a FEMA package containing two cans of Chef Boyardee – meant to feed a family of six without electricity after Hurricane Maria – inspired me to write about my  grandma’s Spam...

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How Whiting Became the Prefered Fish of Black Muslims

It was the 1990s in Sacramento, CA. The sighting of “The Brothers” was a regular occurrence in my childhood neighborhood, Oak Park. Yolanda and I sat on opposite sides of the back of the bus. On both...

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The first feature in my Cocina Boricua column

I’m a columnist. The column is called, Cocina Boricua; preserving traditional Puerto Rican recipes for the diaspora. I was fortunate to be able to write several Puerto Rican food-centric articles for...

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Bacalaitos as familial memory and penance | Number Two Cocina Boricua Column

Number two of my column came along and I didn’t get fired or writer’s block. I’m doing ok. Number two is about bacalaitos and the first time I met my maternal great-grandmother during teenage angst,...

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Behind the comfort of arroz con gandules, an unsettling adult world | Number...

Number three! This one gets a little dark, be warned. When Paolo and I were talking about this piece, I asked him, “How dark is too dark? How personal is too personal?” And he just rolled with it....

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