The quest to preserve Puerto Rican culture with food, Casa Adela, SF Chronicle, 2018

I suppose her story wasn’t important enough to reach the news feeds of the masses. I suppose I should be thankful that I only found out six days after. I suppose if I didn’t constantly seek out the gente in an effort to show love, support and the occasional monetary contribution, I may have never found out. Another Puerto Rican culinary legend has left a hole in the bicultural paradox of the diaspora’s need to feel connected in our world of ni de aqui, ni de alla — not from here, not from there.

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