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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBacalaitos 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,...
View ArticleBehind 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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