Growing up, pasteles were a special treat that we didn't get often. A savory pie of sorts, they're typically eaten during the holidays in Puerto Rican households. While my mom usually hosted Christmas ...

In one way of looking at it, a cuisine’s simplest dish sometimes is its most difficult to cook. When I was a restaurant critic, for example, and if the place that I was reviewing prepared it, I always ...

We decided to round up all the ways Latin America refers to the dish, from corn-based tamales to plantain-based pasteles.