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A good beginning is half the work done.
~Puerto Rican Proverb~

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To Start the Day …. “🇵🇷 The Fuel that Moves Me …. My Love for my Country 🇵🇷 …. “!!

“Nothing is better for your soul than to visit Puerto Rico.”
~Lin-Manuel Miranda~

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IOTD …. “🇵🇷 Image of the Day, Sad, Special Edition …. Death Count after Hurricane Maria Climbs …. We Knew 🇵🇷 …. “!!

QUESTIONABLE OFFICIAL NUMBER STANDS AT 2,975

THE NUMBER WAS ONCE TOUTED TO BE 4,645

WHEN WILL WE KNOW?

MAYBE NEVER

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Wordless Wednesday …. “🇵🇷 In Memoriam …. One Pair Of Shoes, One Puerto Rican Life 🇵🇷 …. “!!

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A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. My kind of cookie too …. “!!

~~October 28, 2016~~ 

MY KIND OF SWEET

Perfection when accompanied with milk!

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To start the day …. “Good morning …. to Boricuas …. and all who stop by …. “!!!

~~October 18, 2016~~

GOOD MORNING 

“To say goodbye, is to die a little.
To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.”

~Nabil Toussi~

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A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. My ancestry, my heritage, my blood …. Taína …. “!!

~~October 3, 2016~~ 

TAINA

My ancestry, my heritage, my blood

By Robert M. Poole
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE

If you have ever paddled a canoe, napped in a hammock, savored a barbecue, smoked tobacco or tracked a hurricane across Cuba, you have paid tribute to the Taíno, the Indians who invented those words long before they welcomed Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492.

Their world, which had its origins among the Arawak tribes of the Orinoco Delta, gradually spread from Venezuela across the Antilles in waves of voyaging and settlement begun around 400 B.C. Mingling with people already established in the Caribbean, they developed self-sufficient communities on the island of Hispaniola, in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic; in Jamaica and eastern Cuba; in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.

They cultivated yuca, sweet potatoes, maize, beans and other crops as their culture flourished, reaching its peak by the time of European contact.

Some scholars estimate the Taíno population may have reached more than three million on Hispaniola alone as the 15th century drew to a close, with smaller settlements elsewhere in the Caribbean. Whatever the number, the Taíno towns described by Spanish chroniclers were densely settled, well organized and widely dispersed.

“Very few Indians were left after 50 years,” said Ricardo Alegría, a Puerto Rican historian and anthropologist I interviewed before his death in July 2011. He had combed through Spanish archives to track the eclipse of the Taíno.

“Their culture was interrupted by disease, marriage with Spanish and Africans, and so forth, but the main reason the Indians were exterminated as a group was sickness,” he told me.

He ran through the figures from his native island:

“By 1519, a third of the aboriginal population had died because of smallpox. You find documents very soon after that, in the 1530’s, in which the question came from Spain to the governor. ‘How many Indians are there? Who are the chiefs?’

The answer was none. They are gone.”

Alegría paused before adding: “Some remained probably … but it was not that many.”

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A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. Start Making Coquito …. yes”!!

~~September 27, 2016~~ 

WHAT IS COQUITO?

There’s no where in the world where Christmas is celebrated as early and for so long as in Puerto Rico.

For Puerto Ricans, Christmas starts after Thanksgiving Day.

After this holiday, Christmas continues for eight days after Epiphany Day (January 6).

We call these extra eight days ‘las octavitas’.

Therefore, don’t be surprise if ‘coquito’ is already in the minds of many Puerto Ricans.

We have to get the ‘coquito’ started because it needs some time for the drink to ‘age’ a bit.

It’s a sweet, yummy eggnog-like drink with a lot of ‘punch’!

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Coquito is a coconut-based alcoholic beverage traditionally served in Puerto Rico. It is generally made with rum, coconut milk, sweet condensed milk, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Wikipedia
Main alcohol: Rum
Ingredients: 28 oz Coconut milk, 14 oz Condensed milk, 2 Egg yolks, Vanilla, to taste, 16 oz Rum
Preparation: Place ingredients into blender, blend until well mixed. Pour into a bottle and refrigerate until cold. Serve in small glasses and sprinkle top lightly with nutmeg.
Served: Strained
Standard garnish: Cinnamon, Nutmeg
Drinkware: Shot glass

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A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. “Early Morning Coffee …. “!!

~~September 17, 2016~~ 

 EARLY MORNING COFFEE

“Now that I had my morning fuel, I’m good to go.”

Said a coffee drinker.

I myself never drink coffee.

I’m a tea drinker.

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A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. “One Yummy Treat …. “!!

~~September 17, 2016~ 

‘FLORECITAS’

I grew up with these.

A tiny cookie with a tip of ‘frosting’.

There are several ways of eating them:

all in one gulp

separate the two pieces

decide which one to eat first

decide which flavor would stay in your mouth when done.

Coffee or milk?

Milk was my choice.

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