Cafe y Chisme Corner
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Cafe y Chisme Corner
Merengue: The Dominican Rhythm That Became a Na...
Merengue is the music that doesn't wait for you to decide how you feel. The tempo is fast, the rhythm is insistent, the güira cuts through everything, and before you've...
Merengue: The Dominican Rhythm That Became a Na...
Merengue is the music that doesn't wait for you to decide how you feel. The tempo is fast, the rhythm is insistent, the güira cuts through everything, and before you've...
Bachata: The Dominican Music That Became the Wo...
Bachata began as music for the broken-hearted in the countryside of the Dominican Republic — música de amargue, music of bitterness, dismissed by Dominican elites as the sound of poverty...
Bachata: The Dominican Music That Became the Wo...
Bachata began as music for the broken-hearted in the countryside of the Dominican Republic — música de amargue, music of bitterness, dismissed by Dominican elites as the sound of poverty...
Cuba Pride: What It Means to Be Cuban in the Di...
Cuban identity in the United States is inseparable from displacement. For the first wave of Cuban exiles — those who left after 1959 — the departure was not supposed to...
Cuba Pride: What It Means to Be Cuban in the Di...
Cuban identity in the United States is inseparable from displacement. For the first wave of Cuban exiles — those who left after 1959 — the departure was not supposed to...
Colombia Pride: What It Means to Carry the Flag...
Colombia is a country that its diaspora carries with precision. The green, yellow, and red of the flag. The specific sound of cumbia from the coast versus the music of...
Colombia Pride: What It Means to Carry the Flag...
Colombia is a country that its diaspora carries with precision. The green, yellow, and red of the flag. The specific sound of cumbia from the coast versus the music of...
Churros: Why the Line Is Always Worth It
The line is always worth it. Whether it's the churro cart at a Mexican fair at 11 p.m., the window at a churrería in Madrid at 8 a.m., or the...
Churros: Why the Line Is Always Worth It
The line is always worth it. Whether it's the churro cart at a Mexican fair at 11 p.m., the window at a churrería in Madrid at 8 a.m., or the...
Flan: The Dessert That Shows Up at Every Table
At some point in every Latino family gathering, someone disappears into the kitchen and comes back carrying a plate with a flan on it, and the room understands immediately that...
Flan: The Dessert That Shows Up at Every Table
At some point in every Latino family gathering, someone disappears into the kitchen and comes back carrying a plate with a flan on it, and the room understands immediately that...