"If I can describe myself in one bite, it would be this, dish, the mini arepa -- it's crispy, sweet, salty, hot, cold, creamy herbaceous, amazingness," Chef Kelvin Fernandez told Latin Post in an exclusive interview for "SABOR."
It was this very savory recipe (which includes steak, lime scented sour cream, creamy guacamole, pico de gallo and Cotija cheese) that the Dominican chef claimed victory over the legendary food star and TV personality, Bobby Flay on the Food Network's "Beat Bobby Flay" during Season four, episode five.
It's still the early days of over the top television (OTT or Internet TV), which means the field is still wide open for innovation and less-established players can make a splash. One of those new players is TuYo, billed as the first Internet TV service for Latino millennials, built and owned by Latinos, which is set to launch in the coming weeks.
Born in NYC and raised amid the Germanic culture of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author Daniel Cubias was considered very exotic. He was the only Latino friend to countless kids, and his cousins were the only other Latinos he knew. That static upbringing helped to shape Cubias' perspective as a writer, sharpen his attentiveness to the progress of U.S. Latinos and urge him to examine his cultural identity.
Despite being born with beauty and brains, a former Miss Venezuela pageant winner died at the age of 68 after spending the last 15 years of her life in homelessness.
Senior editor at The Atlantic and conservative pundit David Frum caused a mini-tweet storm late last week when he suggested that California's immigration population is at least partly to blame for California's epic drought and subsequent ongoing water crisis.
Venezuelans have been in a rush to unload their depreciating currency, and this has in turn led to a devastating drop in its value, leading the the troubled country closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
In a move that many Salvadorean Catholics have considered long overdue, Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop who was murdered during the 1980-92 civil war, has finally been beatified.
On Friday, at least 43 people died during a three-hour long gun battle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on a ranch in western Mexico.
DISH Network's Sling TV continues to improve its path blazing Internet TV subscription service, and continues to go after cord-cutting or "cord-never" Latino audiences, with two big additions this week: a new app for Android TV (i.e., the Google Nexus Player), and the addition of ESPN Deportes to its add-on pack for Spanish-speaking live sports nuts.
When it comes to making tortillas there's only one way to do it - and that's completely from scratch using indigenous Mexican techniques to make stone-ground Nixtamal tortillas, according to Mexico City native Chef Gonzalo Colin.
Chef Colin who is now at the helm of Cantina Rooftop in Hell's Kitchen, New York, (the latest dining/social experience from Pedro Zamora) is igniting his fiery passion for his Mexican roots and artisanal approach to not only tortilla-making, but traditional Mexican cuisine with a modern twist.
National Geographic published a book titled "Abroad at Home: The 600 Best International Travel Experiences in North America," which offers a comprehensive list of worldly flavors and where to find them in the U.S and Canada.
As everything seems to be cooling down between the U.S. and Cuba, inhabitants of the communist island appear to be showing their support for the easing of tension between the two nations by wearing a lot of American Flag inspired clothing
Nicaraguan officials have denied entry to a French cartoonist who had been scheduled to speak on a panel paying homage to the controversial magazine. The government did not explain why the artist was not allowed in the country.
Nearly 60 percent of college-educated Hispanics surveyed in a new report indicated that it's difficult for them to save for the future and cover personal expenses.
Colombian-born author Adriana Páramo left her native country 23 years ago. Geographical exploration and global wandering shaped the way she sees the world and the way she describes it, and this has been made abundantly clear by her books, "My Mother's Funeral" and "Looking for Esperanza."
Latinos in Tech Innovation and Social Media, or LATISM, announced it will be holding its seventh annual national convention in late October. With the national election one year away, the theme of this year's LATISM'15 gathering in Washington D.C. will be "Igniting Latinos to Drive the Innovation Economy."
Several Latin American governments have been challenging various approaches to the war on drugs, traditionally pushed by the United States. Countries like Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia are "just saying no" to -- or at least severely modifying -- long held U.S. anti-drug strategies employed in the region like prohibition, the eradication of narcotics-producing crops, and presenting a unified militarized front against growers.
