One holiday dish you can expect to find in most Boricua and Dominican households are pasteles. Traditionally made with grated root vegetables to create the plantain base called masa and filled with ...

December 21 is National Coquito Day, celebrating Puerto Rico’s signature holiday drink. Coquito is typically made with coconut milk, coconut cream, sweetened condensed milk, and rum. Many Puerto ...

Translating to “little coconut” in Spanish, coquito is a coconut-based cocktail that’s similar to eggnog in the sense that it’s creamy, spiked with liquor and served at Christmas (but it’s different ...

According to Pubbelly‘s Jose Mendin, no one parties during the holidays better than his fellow Puerto Ricans. “No one celebrates Christmas the way we do it,” says Mendin, who grew up in Puerto Rico.

The festive season in Puerto Rico is one of the longest in the world, lasting a total of 45 days. Puerto Ricans have their own unique ways of celebrating the holidays. They drink coquito instead of ...