Puerto Rico's Markets

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When exploring culinary Puerto Rico, what better place to start than a market? And who better to serve as our guide than Chef Wilo Benet, A Culinary Institute of America graduate and one of the island's premier chefs whose restaurant Pikayo is a beacon to all who visit in search of the tastes of Puerto Rico. He'll give us a basic course in the Puerto Rican market basket at the Plaza del Mercado, a small, but lively market in the Santurce area of San Juan. Here, we get our first look at the bounty of this region where sometimes the freshest ingredients like bananas and avocados are growing outside the back door.

[@Edlas22158]

Puerto Rico is a very small island full of talent and beauty.

[@mindy2215]

@@kylangrey651 You should be from DR the # one hackers, scammers and vividores.

[@yocy5]

Thanks for take the time for explore my Island Puerto Rico... The food is perfect and the people too.

[@C3yl0]

😂 I used to go a lot to the market in Rio piedras when I was in school. 💕

[@mariarobles649]

Dios bendiga mi linda isla del encanto que siga recuperandose✌👍🌞🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@babbudsp]

English please

[@albertoortiz9040]

🌴Amen.. Dios bendiga Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@andith]

@@babbudsp Learn grammar first, then criticize somebody else. English, please! Español, por favor!

[@rollingthunder7258]

I WANT PASTELES NOW.
SO DELICIOUS 😋
LOVE ALL MY PEOPLE COOK AND THEY ARE THE NATURAL CHEFS OF MY BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.

[@rollingthunder7258]

I LOVE ALL OF THOSE TUBERS WITH BACALAO SAUTE WITH ONIONS AND TOMATOES.
YUMMY 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

[@zoya1232]

roots are the best very tasty malanga sooo goood i miss my home puerto rico bayamon memories

[@klatup]

my country PR yes

[@devbachu7072]

i would love to visit

[@normagonzalez7470]

The only thing is that our traditions was to use natural ingridients ....no artifitial sazón or adobo... We make our fresh adobo with garlic, pepper, orégano, salt, vinegar and olive oil. The color was, achiote seeds boiled in oil (our family traditions haven change that) . The other thing is that the pasteles masa, the original, is a mixture of green bananas, some green plantains, calabaza y yautía

[@Peek4pony]

Thanks for the Receipes and recitas Natural
!! Gracias !!!

[@babbudsp]

I would love to visit there once in my life. Soooo much love and respect from god's home., Punjab.

[@hughn1]

I don't recall ever eating "apio".
Very informative video. Thanks!

[@norbertoveguilla4471]

Are you puertorrican? I wonder. Apio real good. Part of pr vegetable.

[@wakeupamericans2012]

Very nice explaining in detail

[@Rocio1988]

What a delicious food they have. Enjoy them!!!

[@annabellelopez6111]

RICOOO VIVA MI TIERRA

[@babbudsp]

Hello

[@maddievega7464]

Caballero Chiles/Ajices Caballeros look like very small beads and are very spicy, the ones you are showing are Ajices Picantes/chiles.

[@rosacortes5074]

Plaza de Mercado Rio Piedras is my favorite market in the metro area.

[@rogerwilliams2042]

Lmaoooo the yam he held look funny

[@yolandaalmonte1771]

Yes Goya!!!!! No MSG!!!!!

[@luisnieves8242]

I stopped counting how many times he says ah, om, uh.

[@BENITOABDULAXISPROPHECY]

WE WILL BUY SOME LAND IN SOUTH IRAN ,AND GROW ALL OF THIS FOR US AND TO SELL IN IRAN.

[@luisnieves8242]

never heard of mondongo for hangover, stop embellishing for no reason, you make us sound like drunks.

[@normagonzalez7470]

It's not a bad thing saying that...it's part of tradition to those who drink.... Nothing wrong... He is not inventing that

[@norbertoveguilla4471]

Only puertorricans sabe eso.

[@norbertoveguilla4471]

You are a real jibaro. No sabes na.

[@gr8teagazr122]

Esto habría sido mucho mejor si es narrado por un puertorriqueño. Estoy seguro de que hay chefs puertorriqueños allí. Algunos de nosotros estamos cansados de que la gente blanca esté en todas partes. Solo digo.

[@luisantoniogonzalez2582]

Este tipo no entendió,. el vídeo es de un chef boricua dándole un tour a un gringo. Wilo Bennet no es americano.

[@Aidyn6009]

Él es puertorriqueño, Wilo Bennet reconocido chef.

[@alfonsoportugal6754]

You call that a market?? Give me a break. You want to see real markets, please go to Mexico.

[@guajon1]

Why always some people envy and hates us, this is about Puerto Rico no Mexico. Of course you cant compare Puerto Rico a little Island 100 miles long by 35 wide with Mexico who is huge and have 120 millions peoples and also one of the most complete and diverse kitchens in the world and as a puertorrican I love it and visit many times and I'm proud of Mexico and all the latin countries but also very proud of my little Island who accomplish so much in arts, music, sports, science, etc. As Latin Americans we need to support each other and not complaining and criticizing the others.

[@izphilly1]

alfanso......stop with the insults. theres beauty everywhere not just in mexico. stop putting other latinos down.....thats not a good look on you !!

[@cecegiles7753]

Alfonso Portugal cant they be Happy with what they have

[@willam779]

There are happy with what they have that’s what counts

[@normagonzalez7470]

¿Hay alguna competencia? Cada lugar tiene lo suyo y se respeta. Mírelo como turista. Basta ya de criticarnos. Los puertorriqueños nos disfrutamos los lugares extranjeros, no los criticamos.