Sofrito Magazine

greetings and welcome to sofrito magazine, created to bring awareness to latino cuisine and culture, sharing my personal experiences cooking, playing with recipes using traditional ingredients (and some not so traditional), and drawing on my three decades of work in the restaurant business. born in brooklyn, ny, moved back to bayamon, puerto rico,i learned to cook watching my mother going to the local markets, feeling and listening to ingredients to make sure they were fresh and ready to eat. i learned to marry different flavors not measuring the ingredients but tasting as i went along. at 17 i started working in restaurants in p.r. as a waiter and part-time cook when needed in the kitchen. moved to new haven, ct in 1989 worked at various restaurants in the area including bruxelles, brasserie and bar and scoozi's italian bistro. attended new york restaurant school and graduated with honors in culinary arts and restaurant management, practicing my craft at externships in dolce (stamford