A quintessential Puerto Rican pastry, Pan de Mallorca is rich, eggy and sweet, not unlike a brioche. It is typically served as a breakfast or snack, and comes with a dusting of powdered sugar. The snack has almost iconic status in Puerto Rico – but can you make Mallorca at home that rivals bakeries like [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Puerto Rico’
March 22, 2008
Eating Puerto Rico: Snack time!
We ate our fair share of heavy, starchy meals in Puerto Rico, but the island has a lot to offer in the way of between-meal snacks.
On thing the eaters were really excited for in Puerto Rico was the famous piragua – while it is the Spanish-language word for canoe, it also describes a Puerto [...]
March 6, 2008
Eating Puerto Rico: Fusion Food
Puerto Rico isn’t only into local cuisine. The Caribbean in general has a long history of cultural interchange, so the Eaters weren’t really surprised at some of the interesting Puerto Rican-fusion cuisine we found while wandering about the island. Here are two of the highlights:
Tantra
356 Calle Fortaleza
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Indian-Caribbean fusion? Not as crazy [...]
February 16, 2008
Eating Puerto Rico: Beachside Cuisine
Soleil
Rte. 187, Km 4.5,
Piñones, Puerto Rico
The Eaters took a daytrip from San Juan to Loiza, a predominantly Afrodescendant town east of San Juan, known for its colorful mask makers. We got a recommendation from the locals to go back west along the coast and visit Soleil, an unsuspecting beachside restaurant with supposedly some of the [...]
February 9, 2008
Eating Puerto Rico: Mofongo with the locals
Mofongo is one of the national dishes of Puerto Rico, usually prepared as a sizable cake of smashed savory plantains, mixed with garlic. The dish has West African origins, but today is known as a quintessentially Caribbean meal. So, when we arrived in Puerto Rico we knew we had to sample our fair share.
Bebo’s Cafe [...]
