On Food & Culture
Roasted red bell pepper with anchovies is a delicious appetizer, one of my favorite dishes. I discovered it when I was living in Manhattan, working as a TV producer at CBS news. It was a common appetizer in many Italian-inspired cafes that stay open ’til […]
Chile Dulce, bell pepper, was common at our kitchen table when I was growing up in San Antonio. Caldos and guisados feature chile dulce, and as a stand-alone dish the chile can be stuffed with a meat filling. This bell pepper salsa has lots of […]
Chile Petin, Petín, also called piquín and chiltepin, is native to the area around Brownsville, Texas and its border sister, Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Actually it grows wild all over Texas, New Mexico, Southern Arizona, throughout all of Mexico and has for centuries. Its scientific name is […]
Chicken Fricase is a Boricua dish and also a Plato Cubano. I first learned to make fricasé from a Chicano friend in college who learned it from a Puerto Rican classmate. There are various Cubano and Puertorriqueño versions, but they all have green olives, and […]
Roasted red chile dulce (bell pepper) is delicious with anchovies. It’s one of my favorite dishes. I discovered it when I was living in Manhattan, working at CBS news. It was a common appetizer in many Italian-inspired cafes that stay open ’til 3 am. In […]