A Puerto Rican Christmas in America, SF Chronicle, 2018
Four Puerto Rican cooks — three women and one trans chef — cooked a Puerto Rican Christmas dinner at New York’s famous James Beard House last month.
As the first Puerto Rican food columnist writing about Puerto Rican food for a newspaper in the United States (at least as far as I know), I needed to be at this event. Not just to document the first trans chef to cook at the Beard House, Paxx Caraballo Moll, but to support an event that highlights Puerto Rican gastronomy.
I was asked to take part as a storyteller. I was invited to help prep, take photos, and write about this event at the James Beard House in New York City. It was my first time in NYC and I had to PayPay money pool $2,000 in order to get there. With the help of my online community, I raised the funds in 48 hours.
Three of the chefs were women, and one was trans. The first openly trans person to cook at the Beard House.
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