Nicaraguan Chop Suey
Inside a warm, yellow-toned home decorated with red lanterns, gold tassels, and a large Buddha, Marian Jimenez and her mother prepare for one of their favorite weekend rituals: cooking Nicaraguan dishes.
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Seafood Delights
Latinos who observe Catholicism, and their relatives and friends who donโt, usually spend the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday abstaining from red meat for the entire season of Lent โ or just on Fridays.
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The Mexican Michelada
The ice-cold beer, lime juice, salt, and tomato juice (plus other possible ingredients) cocktail often is compared to a bloody mary and hailed as a hangover cure. But drinking cold tomato juice โ plain or with splashes of seafood broth, as is common in most micheladas โ doesnโt appeal to everyone.
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Celebrate Caribbean Style
When most Latinos see a lechรณn, or suckling pig, it can only mean one thing: Itโs the holiday season and time to gather in large numbers with family and friends.
