Basic Terminology of Puerto Rican Cuisine

Purloined and Edited by Don Jibaro
uerto Rican Cuisine demands that we make sure  not to embarrass ourselves in front or our guests. Consequently we will try to be the BEST possible cooks we can be... full of experience and class. Well, we at JIBAROS, have finally purloined a collection of terms that will give you enough enlightenment to make your guests believe that you know what you're doing!. Study it well and dish it out with authority. Good Luck....!!!SEE HERE

 

DOUBLE TONGUE DEPT

Spanish: Speak or Not To Speak
By Don Jibaro
As a Hispanic (or Latino parent), ¿Am I frustrated, checkmated,  forlorn, discontented, discouraged, embittered, flummoxed, irked, resentful, stonewalled, stymied, thwarted and ungratified because my children won't learn Spanish? No! Let me explain... I once I had a visitor who brought along his daughter so he could.  ►READ MORE

 

LET MY PEOPLE GO TO FLORIDA DEPT..
Puerto Rican Exodus

by Don Jíbaro
have found that most of my pals of the R&R youth years are still doing well... in Florida. Although many Puerto Rican rather have the island's landscape beauty, others feel the economy there is detrimental for the kind of lifestyle they want. College grads, policemen, teachers, artists and a slew of other professionals are seeking Florida. WHAT happened? Is the local economy THAT bad? Where's the money gone? 
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YOU KNOW You're Puerto Rican IF. . .
Represent? It gives us the "good" pride... but, have you measured up lately to see if you walk the walk? Let's see...
epresent? It gives us the "good" pride... but, have you measured up lately to see if you walk the walk? Let's see...

You have been spanked with "chancletas"
You know your mom is sneaking up on you cause you can hear her "chancletas" flapping on the linoleum floor.
Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to summon you to dinner and you only live in a one bedroom apartment.
You have ever called linoleum floor a "rug"
You can get to your house blindfolded by the smell of the "chuletas"
You say "Vamo' pa' encima" instead of "Let's get started"
You get scared whenever someone mentions "el CUUUCO"!!!
You remember every Christmas those
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 "Intelligently Funny!" –DJ

Winokur is da' man. Period.

Puerto Rico : A Political and Cultural History
by Arturo Morales Carrion

 

Chulerías
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The history of a country. . .
 is generally written by the conquerors. The "conquered" seldom writes a thing. Many things contribute to the correct and accurate depiction of historical data. Sponsorship by the wealthy was one of the favorite incentives. Such history tends to carry a partial or one-sided view of the facts.

It is, consequently, up to the passionate historian to do his or her own research to verify the facts. This leads to documentation which will totally eradicate any pre-conceived notion acquired during the student's whippersnapper elementary history education. Puerto Rico, more than perhaps any other nation, may fall victim to this phenomenon due to the simple fact that Puerto Rico is the oldest colony in the world today! Over 500 years, compadre! Yikes, sez me! READ HISTORY

The Importance of Jesus Christ
by Don Jíbaro
Is Jesus Christ really part of our lives
or is He just an Icon at Easter and Christmas?


We "talk the talk" and more often than not, we "walk the walk."  It's consequently and imperative that we get to know that part of our culture that our ancestors staked the essence of their existence on... their faith in The Lord Jesus! ►Read More




I hated the Disco years because they wouldn't
let me take a decent guitar solo. Aargh!

To Honor Our Servicemen Everywhere
Flowers Graphic #4

In Honor of Our Servicemen Everywhere ♥
FLuttering Flower

¡OUCHO! DEPT.
The Boricua Black Eye?
by Don Jíbaro Barbanegra
he Black Eye Syndrome is simple.... Say, you have an uncle who's in jail for burglary, that's a "black eye" to the family. You have a sister who wears red and works the street corners... that's a "black eye" to the family. If any of the above is caught on T.V., Radio or Newspapers... that's a BIG "black eye" to the family. If they're on the Internet, that's a HUGE "black eye". Get the idea?" READ THE BLACK EYE

DJ's GIMME SOME O' DAT LOVE DEPT.
What Is Love?

We make mistakes we make us HURT inside; pain that we cause ourselves by not knowing how to LOVE one another. YES, not knowing. You might say, "Nonsense", but what I might not know in practice, I do know in theory. Love is the gracious (unmerited to others) self-giving of ourselves as unselfish human care. NO debate needed. Love is not sex, friendship, nor displays of affection... love is giving without expecting anything in return... and that's not easy, not for you, me or anybody. That's what makes it so volatile and fragile. We expect, we don't get, we get mad and hold grudges because of it. We all have failed to be patient and kind; we all have become jealous, conceited and proud to the point of being ill-mannered, selfish, irritable, and often-times curse at each other. READ LOVE

Hypocrisy:  Why Hate Phonies?
by Don Jibaro
• Pho·ny/fōnē/ Adjective: Not genuine; fraudulent.Noun: A fraudulent person or thing. • Synonyms: adjective. phoney - false - spurious - sham - counterfeit - bogus -- noun.- fake - sham - forgery

Many Puerto Ricans who are born outside of Puerto Rico get a real thrill when they finally get to visit the island for the first time. It's like "seeing the bride that you've been betrothed to all your life." READ MORE

Boricuanism in USAricans
By Irene F. Vázquez
eeing the movie, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, I realized how other cultures can identify with it. A group of people can immigrate to another country and still bring their culture with them, bring up the next generation, their kids to be like them… loving the food, the language and marrying into their own race.

Now, those who’ve seen the movie, know that the parents seemed to overdo their culture by ignoring the ways of the land that they live in or looking at the other ethnic groups in a negative way. The heroine of the movie seemed to look into the American way of life wistfully rather than into her Greek’s family’s. Yet, she recognized and understood the traditions … she spoke the language and ate the food. She knew the folkloric ways that identified them. She marries a non-Greek who embraces her culture, seeing the uniqueness of it and makes it his own.
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Ode to Daddy
by Raquel M. Vázquez — February 2011 

Don Jibaro's Note:
y eldest daughter Raquel, a student of the University Of Maryland, is a very independent person... She's a leader, not a follower; a strong-willed gal that earns peer respect by who she is; not by what she appears to be. She has always maintained a certain degree of admiration for me because she likes our intellectual exchange. What she wrote below, however, blew my mind to Alpha Centauri, because how she expressed things I never knew existed. I am deeply honored to receive this form of mesmerizing accolade... it's like a Grand Birthday Gift. READ Ode Here


Basic Terminology of Puerto Rican Cuisine

Purloined and Edited by Don Jibaro
uerto Rican Cuisine demands that we make sure  not to embarrass ourselves in front or our guests. Consequently we will try to be the BEST possible cooks we can be... full of experience and class. Well, we at JIBAROS, have finally purloined a collection of terms that will give you enough enlightenment to make your guests believe that you know what you're doing!. Study it well and dish it out with authority. Good Luck....!!!SEE HERE

Hole In The Tongue Dept. Part 2
peak Americano
by Don Jibaro
English! ...Oh the pangs of it. The more I learn about phonetics and grammar, the more ignorant I feel. WHY? Simply put the rules change and nobody tells you about them...

This is an example of the New Age Facebook English:

LOL — Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Love
,!!!! — talk to the hand
S2R — Send To Receive
WWJD — What Would Jesus Do?
WWSD — What Would Satan Do?
*$ — Starbucks
F2F — Face-to-Face
LMHO — Laughing My Head Off

So... To be understood in the USA of the 21st century, you gotta "kill" the words as you pronounce them. Today's lingo is not what we boomers learned in school.  READ MORE

The Puerto Rican Jesus
by Don Jíbaro
Is Jesus Christ really part of the Puerto Rican Culture
or is He just an Icon at Easter and Christmas?


have always said that a Boricua born in the North Pole is NOT an Esquimo... he's still a Boricua. The place of birth only makes you a citizen of that place, nothing more and nothing less. I'm proud of Jesus... whether He had been born in Puerto Rico or the North Pole. ...but God wanted Him in Israel. Me? I was born in 60 years ago in San Juan but was raised in Bayamón, when Bayamón was little, not the Metropolis that it is today. No, Clark Kent doesn't live there. READ MORE



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The Empty Bed
Brokenhearted Translation by Don Jibaro
Don Jíbaro's Note:
ome years ago I was playing my guitar at home. I came upon this old tango my Dad used to quote... La Cama Vacía" (The Empty Bed). I remembered the lyrics and went on to sing it as I played. Half way through the song I began to weep. I didn't stop playing, and my singing became a cry of sadness. . The sadness lies in the fallacy of "friendship" and the fact that the words of the song are so true... so moving that you can't avoid "living" the story.  DJ --- There's nothing as sad someone dying alone on a hospital bed —DJ -

ANGEL SANTIAGO sez: "It is written as "decima espinela", which have its origin in Andalucia during the 16th century and came to the new world shortly after. It is the basis for our "seis" and "aguinaldo" (which uses the "decima" and "decimilla" respectively), but is also found in the music and literature of most latin american countries, Canary Islands and the south west of the US. The "decima" came to the new world around the end of the 16th century and have been in used in Puerto Rican "seis" since the 17th century making it part of the real Puerto Rican music."

 


Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. That's the truth.

I give you true stories that happen in real life to real people like us! I don't want to offend anybody, I just hate the many of the IDIOTA things we do sometimes. I'm all against idiocy. A stupid person is more dangerous than a armed bandit. Yet we see them in all areas of our lives. Some are pretty much  undetectable that they could pass for normal... until you give them something complicated to do.  Be, therefore, advised... they are closer than you think.
Some Of My Friends Are Idiots! WHY?
Question asked to Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest: "If you could live forever, would you and why? --- Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever." HUH?




 

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¿What  Anger?

By Don Jibaro
We were at the market last week and I heard a toddler crying very loud on he next aisle. I left my son with the cart and went to see... Well, there was a lady comparing the price of two items AND a 3 or 4 year old boy kicking the shopping cart and screaming "I want that toy, I want that toy NOW !!! Read More
 

 

The
Quintessential American Problem

by Andrés Mata

Don Jibaros's.Note: Andrés Mata is only 18 and the son of my Spiritual Advisor, Alex... He's also smarter than your 5 yr.old and many 55 yr. olds. He has a gift of discernment and a keen eye to spot idiocy in human behavior. That is why I asked him to write for JIBAROS.COM about that which he knows best...
IDIOCY
A land where you can have a population of nearly 80% Hispanics or Latinos live in a portion of a city called Korea Town; essentially, a melting pot of different cultures, something America takes pride in. But let’s dissect it further: what draws all these different cultures together to this land? The so called “American Dream”. I would not know what the appeal is, seeing that my family and I have been in America for generations; But also take heed the well known saying: “The grass is greener on the other side.” What is causing America to rot from the inside? Simple. Idiocy.
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DON JIBARO'S DAUGHTER DEPT.

Frances' Missionary
Trip to Cuba

(Update by Don Jíbaro)
When my daughter Frances told me that she was going to be part of  a Missionary Trip to Cuba, I though of the sinister dangers and urban legends that has turned Cuba into the "don't go there" place. The case of the Cuban people is a most impacting one... as we have all seen and read what goes on there... how the arrogant pride of the affluent Executive leadership keep the populace virtually in squalor poverty.Enter Frances' Team from the Light and Life church of Downey, California...
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California & Hawaii's
First Puerto Ricans
1850-1925
 by Daniel M. Lopez
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Puerto Rican Book: "The Photographs of Jack Delano" 

 

 


The Puerto Rican Diaspora (book)
Migrating and building communities in the U.S.A. From Hawai'i in 1900 to New England—the Puerto Rican diaspora grows in the States...more than in Puerto Rico itself.

 

Les Rivera's
Salsarican Corner


Les is a freelance writer, covering New York-Puerto Rico-Cuba style salsa/mambo music, and the sport of boxing.


Analysis of the Conga Drum

Purloined
by Don Jibaro

The conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum of African origin, probably derived from the Congolese Makuta drums or Sikulu drums commonly played in Mbanza Ngungu, Congo.
A person who plays conga is called a "conguero".  Although ultimately derived from African drums made from hollowed logs, the Cuban conga is staved, like a barrel. These drums were probably made from salvaged barrels originally. They were used both in Afro-Caribbean... religious music and as the principal instrument in Rhumba.

Congas are now very common in Latin music, including salsa music, as well as many other forms of American popular music.
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Don Jibaro's Interview
by Les Rivera

One of his quotes from jibaros.com reads: “A Puerto Rican shall not be boring.” so, to describe Don Jibaro as anything less than riveting would be an understatement of his own philosophy. Don Jibaro is the owner/operator of some of the world’s busiest Puerto Rican websites, Over the years, Orlando (his real name) has also left a legacy of volunteer work in the Los Angeles community.
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