“I Still Can’t Get It Right”

In this episode

• The Rice and Beans Story: The recipe his mother gave him, the measurements she never did, and his late sister who got the closest.
• Two Islands and a Jersey Life: Growing up between Puerto Rico and St. Thomas and what each place gave him that the other could not.
• The Voice of the Ancestors: How a friend's humming became the theme song of Flavors We Inherit.
• Corporations Packaging Our Culture: Why if we don't tell our stories we give other people leverage to tell them for us.
• Heritage Fragment: The specific drums and the song by Celia Cruz that connect him most to where he comes from.
• Just Ask. And Have a Pen: The one tangible step to preserve a family recipe before it is too late.
• The Nuance of Identity: Old worlds and new worlds. Both are valid. Both are important.

Chapters

1. 00:00Is there a recipe in your family that only one person knows how to make?
2. 01:28The rice and beans recipe his mother never gave him measurements for
3. 02:44Growing up between New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas
4. 05:00Who was the keeper of the food traditions
5. 06:40Why he left his full time career to become a full time creative
6. 07:47How his ancestors are influencing him and the voice of Eliana Reyes
7. 11:21The biggest lesson from doing Flavors We Inherit
8. 13:33Corporations packaging our food and selling it back to us
9. 19:54Heritage fragment: drums and Celia Cruz
10. 20:48One tangible step to preserve a family recipe before it is too late
11. 21:50What it means that this work exists