Plantain latkes at Chanukah. Arroz y habichuelas (rice and beans) regarding the Rosh Hashanah dining dining table close to Big Mama Tillie’s roast brisket. Flan de queso crema (cream cheese custard) for Shavuot.
While those may be run-of-the-mill Jewish getaway meals in certain components of the whole world, it absolutely was totally uncommon in my own Ashkenazi upbringing in Silver Spring, Maryland. Of program, that is before we came across Luis.
Seventeen years back, we dragged myself off of my settee within my apartment on Capitol Hill to attend an ongoing celebration in Ballston. Why? Because a buddy explained that a lovely Jewish man had been likely to be here.
We came across the Jewish man. Eh, he wasn’t for me personally. Nevertheless the individual who actually impressed me ended up being their roomie, Luis, a Puerto Rican guy whom talked with kindness and humor in greatly accented English.