It is well known that most teams have food for the players in the clubhouse.
An MLB club looking for Latin talent should hire a cook fluent in this cuisine for post-game meals, etc.
We have supermarkets serving Latin meals in the Phoenix area. It's Mexican food, and it is very inexpensive. Nary a white person goes inside, which is okay with me.
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Does the photographed woman cook in a story about cooking not rate a name? Funny to see this article alongside the article about the search to name a woman from a 1971 science conference photo where all the male attendees were named. Really, NYT?
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It is pieces like this that keep me as a subscriber to the NYT. Bravo!
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I'll re-read this article after the Mets are out of in late September and the Times doesn't send a beat reporter to cover them.
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Dining with his assistant (?) in a Gucci headband. What a scene!
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Such a smart reporter. Such a great piece.
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Anybody knows if there is a Bravo in Southern California?
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I have always wanted to see the Mets in Spring Training, but as a school teacher, I could never fit it into my schedule. Spring 2019 I'll be retired...and now I know where my wife, who is from Trinidad, will be shopping and eating while I'm at the ballpark:)
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I spent about 6 months living and working in Santo Domingo a few years ago. I was surprised at how meat-centric the cuisine of an island nation is. As a vegetarian, it was a tough 6 months for me.
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I not only shop regularly at my local Bravo in Lakeland for the great specially produce, sausages, and other hard to find ingredients, but it is my go to place for café con leche and great lunches from the hot table. I have also noted recently that our local hipsters have found Bravo.
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Stewed oxtail turns my stomach over the cruelty to the innocent oxen. Honestly, I am certain a just-as-comforting texture and flavor could be replicated without killing having to be the medium.
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Then might I suggest you try the alt-Dominican national dish? It's faux-Oxtail bean curd chunks with mashed yeast substitute mofongo. Goes great with the tempeh-flavored non-alcohol cerveza.
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Are you kidding? Oxtail is beef tail. You don't believe in eating meat at all, that's fine, but oxtail comes from the millions of cows killed to make beef. It's not like the tail is cut off and some animal is left tail-less.
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Just curious to learn about your food preferences, please.
Thank you.
What an interesting and humane human interest story. Nice job.
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A good businessman, find your market and serve it, well. How can you beat that.
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i just visited the Bravo in North Paterson NJ. Unfortunately they don't have any dine-in. Bought some avocados and black beans.
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New rule: Any article which features such delicious looking food must include at least one recipe. We don't need your secret sauce, but how about just one?
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The food looks beautiful. I'm thinking of flying out and eating there for a week.
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Sometimes you just want a meal
That takes you to places unreal;
To childhood retreats
Made up of good eats
That fill you and then help you heal.
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Thanks for a truly brilliant piece of home
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Baseball & food, nothing better!
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I will say that in the age of autocracy and intolerance, I am blessed to live among so many warm people like this gentleman whom I have met here in Washington Heights in the eight years I’ve resided here. It softens the blow of our nation’s spiritual crisis a great deal. I come out of the subway at 168th and I breathe a huge sigh of relief to live in the “little DR”! The abuelas walking their grandchildren home from school, or maybe by an older brother, the funny wise-cracking teenagers, and the smells of the street foods. I have learned a lot here to learn a lot in their way of being, openness, and a comfortable grace and rhythm in their manners. Men in Panama’s pass by and flash these brilliant smiles with a gentle “buen dia”—yes I am definitely blessed to live among them!
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Any chance to open a store in Sarasota?
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home foodie off home
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Thank you for making me hungry! I am starving! I need to go get myself some guandules as soon as possible.
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Writing like this is dangerous. I'm so hungry I'm tempted to lick my monitor.
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I love the lunch at Bravo on 174th street in the Bronx.
Always a line.
Always a heavy styrofoam takeout container.
Always tasty.
Always incredibly reasonable.
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Thanks for sharing this nice story - very welcome after the constant noise from the WH. I also enjoyed the pictures. And, I'm hungry now!
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I am not a Met Fan but this was an enjoyable story. Sound like good people taking pride in looking out for others. Thanks, DEE
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It's wonderful that people are looking out for players who are missing the comforts of home. Baseball is a great catalyst for communal experiences even outside the stadium.
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Margon in midtown is the best place I've found in the city for authentic Cuban/Latin food.
Some supermarkets in Queens have hot buffets at lunch time and serve latin food as well.
But nothing, I mean NOTHING, tastes like Latin food in Florida. It's the real deal!
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Bravo !
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I used to get take out at Bravo and my only complaint was that for $5 the styrofoam container was so heavy and massively filled with great food that it was hard to carry. Oxtails are the best part of the cow.
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Great read, made me remember my abuela’s food. I wonder if there’s anything similar here in New York, Im constantly looking for platano maduro
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Come on up to Washington Heights.
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I very much like the focus on community service, especially the fact that the owner is a former minor leaguer who decided to pursue a career in food and who gives back to poor players who will likely never makes it to the Show. HIs guidance to younger players, both poor and famous, is valued I am sure.
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Great story. I was just in a Bravo supermarket in Florida last week.
Anyone who likes this story should see the film "Sugar," about a young Dominican pitcher who tries to make it in the major leagues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFPo7XMWGMo
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Sugar is a great movie; I've seen it twice. So real...actual baseball players from the DR were hired to play some of the movie roles. It was touching and funny.
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Love this. and would kill for a guava cheese pastelito right now.
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I feel like I gained five pounds reading this article. Yum.
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Rabo guisado should be enshrined in the Smithsonian. Italians make a very similar dish called “la coda” but I have grown to love the Dominican version more.
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Dominican food is the ultimate comfort food. Love it!
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A lovely story, made me feel good reading it
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