Frijoles, or beans, are a staple in Hispanic cuisine. Most meals feature beans in some form and Hispanic cooking truly celebrates the versatility and of course, deliciousness, of the tiny legumes. Few ...

When Ignacio Frias cooks, his Dominican roots are a part of every recipe. When he was growing up in the rural area of Miches, about two hours from Punta Cana, his father taught him to cook with wood ...

Michael Tavarez runs Picadera, a Dominican street food concept in Dallas, with his fiance Jennifer Weil.(Rafael Canales) Much like other pop-ups by young entrepreneurs finding success in Dallas, ...

Jhonatan De los Santos' huge smile is infectious to anyone he meets. Since March, when he opened in his new food truck SPM Empanadas in Elmira, he's been smiling a lot more. Upon arrival to SPM ...

The cooking of the Dominican Republic is a fine culinary example of Hegel’s Dialectic, the 19th century German philosopher who came up with the notion that when a thesis met an antithesis, it formed a ...

Growing up, Jason Smith spent countless hours cooking alongside his mother. Smith loved preparing food for family and friends ...

Sometimes you get just a taste of a dish, just a sample perhaps, and it’s enough to stitch it to your flavor memory and incite a desire again when a reminder surfaces. In this case, it was a small bit ...

Cardi B never considered herself a chef, but things changed when she became a mom of two. While the Grammy winner, Billboard Hot 100 chart topper, rapper, songwriter, and actor would be the first to ...

Chef and restaurateur Michael Tavarez has always sought to bring Dallas into the future. When he first arrived in Texas from New York City, he sold solar panels door-to-door, trying to get Texans to ...

Jonathan Santana opened the sole bricks-and-mortar Dominican restaurant in the Los Angeles area last summer. He was a teenager in the 2000s, though, when he first considered that his family’s recipes ...