Growing up, pasteles were a special treat that we didn't get often. A savory pie of sorts, they're typically eaten during the holidays in Puerto Rican households. While my mom usually hosted Christmas ...

Paola Velez makes the sweet and tangy pastries on this week’s episode of Pastries with Paola. As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home cooking content for Food & ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Sometime during the beginning of November in ...

Alcapurrias, pasteles, empanadillas, and other Puerto Rican food staples are the secret to José “DJ Funky Joe” Vallenilla mission: “fool carnivores” with a plant-based menu. The radio host turned ...

This isn’t a music posting, but you will have to forgive me. This is Christmas Eve and I’m nostalgic for traditions that relate to family, food and friends. I was raised in Puerto Rico, where the big ...

“If you travel, and COVID doesn’t kill you, I will,” said my mother, on the phone from 3,000 miles away. “Stay put.” It had been decades since we’d spent Christmas apart, but now she was ordering me, ...

You didn’t hear this from me. Not far from the geographic center of our island home, tucked inside an unremarkable strip center where you’d never think to look, there is a woman — perhaps the only ...