Puerto Quotes

[She usually worked the front of the restaurant, which serves traditional Puerto Rican dishes - rice with chicken, rice with beans, soups, fried codfish cakes -] the food people grew up on or only get when they go to a restaurant... The things you remember eating as a child but you wouldn't make at home. - Luis Rodriguez

[Always mindful of their cultural history, Los Lobos jumped at the chance to record there, particularly since San Francisco, like their native Los Angeles, supports a sizeable Chicano (Mexican-American) populace.] Well, it's more of a mixed Latino community, ... There's a lot of Mexicans, but there's also people from Latin America - Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans and so on. There's an area called the Mission District, which is where they all live, that's pretty much the Latin side of town. They've always had a large Latin music scene up there, though it's more like salsa. - David Hidalgo