Koti Ramirez Baranda peels bananas in his Wat Get? shop, where he serves plates of the classic Puerto Rican food. A lifelong Kaimuki resident, he has been running his Waipahu shop for a dozen years.

This isn’t a music posting, but you will have to forgive me. This is Christmas Eve and I’m nostalgic for traditions that relate to family, food and friends. I was raised in Puerto Rico, where the big ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Local family brings the deliciousness to Hawaii residents with homemade recipes. The Paiva family is feeding Hawaii and its residents as a way to bring a taste of their Puerto Rcian ...

You didn’t hear this from me. Not far from the geographic center of our island home, tucked inside an unremarkable strip center where you’d never think to look, there is a woman — perhaps the only ...

“If you travel, and COVID doesn’t kill you, I will,” said my mother, on the phone from 3,000 miles away. “Stay put.” It had been decades since we’d spent Christmas apart, but now she was ordering me, ...

Newsday's Scott Vogel takes a tour of a little-known operation making pasteles at the Medford location of Island Empanada. Credit: Randee Daddona Stay logged in. The Newsday app makes it easier to ...

Alcapurrias, pasteles, empanadillas, and other Puerto Rican food staples are the secret to José “DJ Funky Joe” Vallenilla mission: “fool carnivores” with a plant-based menu. The radio host turned ...

Paola Velez makes the sweet and tangy pastries on this week’s episode of Pastries with Paola. As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home cooking content for Food & ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – Mama D’s Famous Pasteles is a local Puerto Rican food company that’s been around for decades. [Hawaii’s Breaking News–Download the FREE KHON2 app for iOS or Android] The company is ...