In 2022, pre-orders for my cookbook, Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook, started to roll in. In parallel, I noticed a lot of social media cooks—who were not Puerto Rican—using adobo in their recipes ...

Seasoning chicken with adobo adds garlic, black pepper, oregano, turmeric, and cumin in one easy blend. Just smear the chicken with olive oil, add salt and adobo, and bake, braise, grill, or air-fry.

When Caribbean cuisine enters the chat, Puerto Rican food isn't always the first to chime in, and that's a shame. While maybe not as famous as its beaches, bars, and bioluminescent bays, Puerto Rico's ...

I reach for its dried form in my cooking almost daily. I grew up in a Mexican household, but because my father was raised in New York—where he learned to cook from the matriarch of a Puerto Rican ...