Cooking Puerto Rico in the Midwest
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I'm Puerto Rican. I've lived in Grimes, Iowa, since 2015. And I've been cooking real Puerto Rican food here with whatever I can find at HyVee, Walmart, and the occasional drive to a Latin grocery store for over ten years.
This booklet is what I learned.
Every recipe is built for a Midwest kitchen. Every ingredient on every list is findable at a standard Iowa grocery store. The Midwest Pantry Swap Guide tells you what to use when the real ingredient isn't available near you, and where to find it when it's worth finding.
Butternut squash for calabaza. Cubanelles for ají dulce. Extra cilantro when you can't find culantro. None of these are compromises — they're solutions. Puerto Rican cooking has always been about using what you have.
15 recipes. Pantry swap guide. 21 pages. Instant PDF download.