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Que Chevere: Innovative Seasonal Veggie Adaptations to Puerto Rican Cuisine
Que Chevere brings the Lower East Side community together to enjoy classic Puerto Rican cuisine. The owner, Mike Petrovitch, opened the restaurant back in 2018 as a homage to his Puerto Rican Heritage and to bring Autism Awareness to his community to honor his son and grandson. As a true Latin American Restaurant in Action,Continue reading “Que Chevere: Innovative Seasonal Veggie Adaptations to Puerto Rican Cuisine“
Learning from Experts: Lourdes Castro on making healthy Latin food delicious
Many people in the US associate Latin restaurants with greasy, cheesy, fattening foods. Those unfamiliar with Latin food and the diversity within that designation might expect these qualities from Latin restaurants and use them to assess “authenticity.” This notion has allowed the idea that traditional Latin foods can’t be healthy which is a tough thingContinue reading “Learning from Experts: Lourdes Castro on making healthy Latin food delicious”
New Publication: Results from our restaurant listening sessions
Originally posted on Melissa Fuster, PhD:
This post is to celebrate a new publication: Promoting healthy eating in Latin American restaurants. The article presents the findings from our initial listening sessions with Latin American restaurant stakeholders for my restaurant research project. Our efforts began almost two years ago, in the fall of 2020, after the…
Eat Fit: Healthy Latin Dishes in the Spotlight
As we mentioned in our previous blog post, Eat Fit collaborates with restaurants across the state of Louisiana. The Hispanic population in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes is small but growing rapidly. Between 2000 and 2020, the Hispanic population grew from 4% to 9% of the total metro New Orleans population (The Data Center,Continue reading “Eat Fit: Healthy Latin Dishes in the Spotlight”
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