Latin dish you crave:

Mofongo

 

Favorite family recipe:

My mom's cabbage and bacon rice.

 

Secret ingredient to make a Latin dish pop:

Sofrito!

 

Favorite Latin/Spanish restaurant in U.S.:

OLA Restaurant from Chef Douglas Rodríguez.

 

Secret to a perfect dinner party:

Good Puerto Rican rum and good friends.

 

Biggest food indulgence:

Plantains!

 

Best Latin food memory:

It's all the childhood memories in the kitchen of all the women that cooked for me.

 

Ideal Latin breakfast, lunch, and dinner:

Breakfast: white rice with a fried egg on top and fried baby bananas.

Lunch: Bistec encebollado and mamposteao rice

Dinner: Lobster asopao

 

Favorite Latin cocktail:

Coco Beach

  • 1.5oz Don Q Coco
  • 1/2oz Don Q Cristal
  • 2 1/2oz Cranberry
  • Splash of Soda Water

Get the full recipe.

 

Favorite kitchen gadget:

Pilón

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