Whats the difference between Mexican and Puerto Rican food?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at
6:04 pm
Im just wondering is there any difference between Mexican and Puerto Rican food? Everytime I see a Latino restaurant it always says Mexican but never Puerto Rican or anything else. So is there a real difference in the food or do they just always call it Mexican as a catch-all term for hispanic food?
Is there an Interest in Puerto Rican art or Food in Tucson?
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Filed under: Puerto Rican recipes
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Thats like asking whats the difference between Italian food and Japanese food, a whole lot. For starters, Mexican cuisine is founded in the use of corn. Puerto Rican food implements more rice and beans. In Mexico depending what region you are in there are a wide variety of dishes and products that are used that are indigenous to each area. In the U.S. generally speaking, places that serve Mexican food has very little to do with real Mexican cuisine and is usually adapted to the taste of American palates, greasy, cheese filled replicas of misinterpreted dishes from the south. I speak of this with knowledge being an American chef who lives and works in Mexico and have also traveled to Puerto Rico.