Puerto Rico Adventure Guide

By Kurt Pitzer

This guide offers a mix of practical travel information along with details of adventurous activities, which should be fun for everyone no matter what their age or ability. There is information on the history, culture, climate and geography of the island,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing
• Release date: May 15, 2006
• ISBN: 9781588432971

Kurt Pitzer

KURT PITZER is a former commercial fisherman who has reported from some of the world's most turbulent regions for The Boston Globe, The Sunday Times of London, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine. He cowrote The Bomb in My Garden with Saddam Hussein's nuclear mastermind, Mahdi Obeidi, after helping him escape from Baghdad in 2003.

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Food: A Taste of Puerto Rico

Spices & Seasonings

Visitors to Puerto Rico may have mixed feelings about comida criolla (local creole cooking). We heartily recommend it as the vestige of a culinary culture that is slowly getting buried under mushrooming fast-food outlets and restaurants serving nouveaux and international fare. At its worst, comida criolla can be greasy and unappealing. At its best, it blends the traditions of Taino, African and Spanish cooking to delicious result. Unlike many of the other Caribbean peoples, Puerto Ricans aren't big on explosively spicy food (although most restaurants supply pique hot sauce – sometimes homemade – on request). The most typical spices used are cilantro (a large-leafed and more aromatic member of the parsley family), garlic, onions and peppers, used to make sofrito, the base of nearly everything that comes out of the Puerto Rican kitchen. Meat and seafood is usually seasoned with adobo – similar to a very mild curry