Puerto Rican carry-out restaurant Mr. Taco has quickly become a late-night hotspot, filling a gap in the downtown food scene and offering a window into the culture.

You can add extra flavor to rice by making arroz verde, seasoned with fresh cilantro and poblano peppers, or arroz con gandules with homemade sofrito and canned pigeon peas. You can also turn the rice ...

Other items to try include tostones (fried plantains), arroz con gandules (rice and pigeon peas). For something sweet, try tembleque (a coconut custard), pastelitos de guayaba (a guava-filled ...

Other versions include asopao de mariscos, a Puerto Rican twist on seafood gumbo with the same brothy rice foundation, and asopao de gandules that uses pigeon peas instead of or in addition to ...

Arroz con gandules is Puerto Rico’s national dish, combining seasoned rice with pigeon peas. Flavored with sofrito, olives, and a touch of pork, it’s a savory one-pot wonder. The dish is ...

In and around the garage at home, Jax Realin may be the closest of four children to an authentic handy man, or handy woman.

In late 2012 we released our original report on arsenic in rice, in which we found measurable levels in almost all of the 60 rice varieties and rice products we tested. Our most recent testing and ...

The crisp-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside pork belly that offers up all its liquid fat at the first bite, the slick greens in fragrant yellow coconut-turmeric potlikker, the rich porky rice ...

I eat rice multiple days a week — and used to exclusively make it in a pot on the stove. It’s a deceptively easy task: Measure, rinse, add water, simmer, steam, and less than half an hour ...

Pudding rice is widely available in British supermarkets. Look for rice with plump, shiny, round grains. You do not have to soak pudding rice before use. Combine it with milk, eggs and nutmeg to ...