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For lovers of pork, there is no greater Puerto Rican treat than a trip into the hills for a sampling of lechon, or roast suckling pig. Apa Ramos, owner of Lechonera La Ranchera, in the hills above San Juan at Agua Buena, Guaynabo, shows us the process. Pork here is sold with sides like pigeon peas and rice, morcilla, green bananas in vinaigrette, cassava in a garlicky sauce called mojo, or a good potato salad.

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Food is everywhere in Puerto Rico. Roadside truck stops offer hearty, stick-to-the-ribs workingman’s dishes such as cassava in vinaigrette, fricasseed rabbit, and blood sausage called morcilla. Guajo is a mixture of a pig’s innards served with rice and red beans. Green bananas known as guineos are boiled and provide an alternative starch to root vegetables and rice.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

Food is everywhere in Puerto Rico. Roadside truck stops offer hearty, stick-to-the-ribs workingman’s dishes such as cassava in vinaigrette, fricasseed rabbit, and blood sausage called morcilla. Guajo is a mixture of a pig’s innards served with rice and red beans. Green bananas known as guineos are boiled and provide an alternative starch to root vegetables and rice.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

When exploring culinary Puerto Rico, what better place to start than a market? And who better to serve as our guide than Chef Wilo Benet, A Culinary Institute of America graduate and one of the island’s premier chefs whose restaurant Pikayo is a beacon to all who visit in search of the tastes of Puerto Rico. He’ll give us a basic course in the Puerto Rican market basket at the Plaza del Mercado, a small, but lively market in the Santurce area of San Juan. Here, we get our first look at the bounty of this region where sometimes the freshest ingredients like bananas and avocados are growing outside the back door.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

When exploring culinary Puerto Rico, what better place to start than a market? And who better to serve as our guide than Chef Wilo Benet, A Culinary Institute of America graduate and one of the island’s premier chefs whose restaurant Pikayo is a beacon to all who visit in search of the tastes of Puerto Rico. He’ll give us a basic course in the Puerto Rican market basket at the Plaza del Mercado, a small, but lively market in the Santurce area of San Juan. Here, we get our first look at the bounty of this region where sometimes the freshest ingredients like bananas and avocados are growing outside the back door.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

When exploring culinary Puerto Rico, what better place to start than a market? And who better to serve as our guide than Chef Wilo Benet, A Culinary Institute of America graduate and one of the island’s premier chefs whose restaurant Pikayo is a beacon to all who visit in search of the tastes of Puerto Rico. He’ll give us a basic course in the Puerto Rican market basket at the Plaza del Mercado, a small, but lively market in the Santurce area of San Juan. Here, we get our first look at the bounty of this region where sometimes the freshest ingredients like bananas and avocados are growing outside the back door.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

Round Hill’s Executive Chef Martin Maginley demonstrates how to make pepper shrimp gnocchi that give an Italian twist to the Jamaican idea of a dumpling. The dish is flavored with scotch bonnets, coconut milk and callaloo.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

Round Hill’s Executive Chef Martin Maginley demonstrates how to make pepper shrimp gnocchi that give an Italian twist to the Jamaican idea of a dumpling. The dish is flavored with scotch bonnets, coconut milk and callaloo.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

Mac n’ cheese is a Caribbean staple often known by its old British name of macaroni pie. In this demonstration, Chef Bill Moore transforms the dish with fried ackee, and creates these playful and delicious spring rolls.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7

Mac n’ cheese is a Caribbean staple often known by its old British name of macaroni pie. In this demonstration, Chef Bill Moore transforms the dish with fried ackee, and creates these playful and delicious spring rolls.

For recipes, visit www.ciaprochef.com/WCA7