I thoroughly believe that the best Christmas traditions are those that combine delicious hometown flavors with family bonding time, and in my Abuela's Puerto Rican household, the epitome of such were ...

We decided to round up all the ways Latin America refers to the dish, from corn-based tamales to plantain-based pasteles.

One holiday dish you can expect to find in most Boricua and Dominican households are pasteles. Traditionally made with grated root vegetables to create the plantain base called masa and filled with ...

For many Puerto Ricans, Christmastime is pasteles season. Come November, many of us are already thinking about how we’re going to score our pasteles, a complicated, labor-intensive holiday dish.