What Does Puerto Rican Food Taste Like?
Puerto Ricans, like everyone, love to eat and in so doing have perfected the art of Caribbean cuisine into its own cocina criolla. This special Caribbean cookery has a fairly traceable family tree and it is safe to say that it was initiated by the early Indian inhabitants of the island. For almost 500 years the basic ingredients the Arawaks used have been enriched by the culinary skills of newcomers from Europe such as the Spaniards or of the African slaves brought to toil in the sugar fields. The time-honored ingredients are still at te bottom of almost every dish but the different and delicate blends and innovations of five centuries have developed a genuine cuisine. The seasoning is perhaps the most noticeable difference in Puerto Rican cookery.. You must think of pepper, lime rind, cinnamon, cloves, fresh ginger, garlic and the juice of the sour orange. Some favorite herbs are culantro(coriander), and orégano.These, together with small sweet peppers are widely used to flavor soups,
