Caribbean Features: Creole Cuisine
The culinary inheritance of the Caribbean is integrally linked to its immigrant past. Its cuisine is known as Creole, derived from the Spanish word crillo (meaning native to an area).
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Puerto Rica
Maricao Coffee Festival
Maricao celebrates la toma de cafe every year. The festival takes place in the plaza town and features folkloric music, crafts displays, typical cuisine and demonstrations of coffee preparations.
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The Puerto Rican Diaspora
The Puerto Rican diaspora is overwhelmingly centralised in the United States due to the former essentially being a part of the latter. Puerto Ricans comprise 10% of the United States’ total Latin American population, a number of around 5.6 million.
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