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Move over eggnog, coquito is about to become the new seasonal drink. Coquito is often described as "Puerto Rican eggnog." In Spanish "coquito" means "little coconut". The traditional Christmas ...
Coquito in a bottle at a restaurant in Ponce, Puerto Rico, during the Christmas season There are many variations of coquito based on location and family traditions. [ 1 ] Although all these variations are unique in their own way, they all have one thing in common, and that generally is rum, although some prefer to make it with another alcohol ...
Pitorro is an integral part of Puerto Rican culture, and musical odes to it or its production (such as the plena "Los Contrabandistas", popularized by Puerto Rican singer Daniel Santos) are part of local folklore. Pitorro is usually much stronger than commercial rum. At times its alcohol content surpasses the common 80- or 90-proof (40% or 45% ...
Puerto Rican cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes original to Puerto Rico. It has been primarily a fusion influenced by the ancestors of the Puerto Rican people: the indigenous Taínos , Spanish Criollos and sub-Saharan African slaves.
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As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...