cortlandt, and you see stuff here you probably ain t seeing in central park. the garifuna come from honduras, guatemala, and belize, and they trace their ethnic group back to a single slave ship that crashed off st. vincent, and whose freed africans then mixed with carib-indians. where is home for many of the garifuna community living in the u.s.? you guessed it, the bronx. baron ambrosia: living in the bronx you re able to, kind of, travel the world without leaving the borough. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: and, you know, it s like an addiction. when you go to another country, and that first day in the market anthony: yeah. baron ambrosia: and all your dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you re just looking around you re like, where s that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good.
candy bar. anthony: it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: morcilla. anthony: morcilla for sure. baron ambrosia: it s always morcilla. anthony: and then what else do we need? some, uh, plátano? baron ambrosia: yeah. anthony: puerto rico, i missed you. baron ambrosia: the bronx, to me, became a place where i could really engage my bacchanalian sensibility. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: you know, you could really just come here, eat, drink wine, women, song, and just indulge. anthony: this is pretty much the center of the pork universe as i ve ever seen it in new york. i don t know any place porkier than what i m looking at. anthony: this is exactly the kind of thing i thought we d lost in new york, that one after the other faded away in the neighborhoods i lived in. and all along, all along it was there, right underfoot a gusher of porky goodness. baron ambrosia: i mean, there s a thing there s a great line, which is, uh, they say in france, switzer
and gourmet. baron ambrosia: the bronx is so multi-faceted, but for some reason, this is the first place i always take people because this just oozes and emanates, kind of, that flavor of the bronx. anthony: and he knows what i like places like this. 188 cuchifritos on 188th street and the grand concourse. old school new york puerto rican good stuff. get within 20 feet of this place and prepare to lose your freaking mind. baron ambrosia: cuchifrito itself is basically fried pig. the ears, the tongue, chopped up and deep-fried. anthony: so off-cut pig parts, deep-fried? what s not to like about that? baron ambrosia: right. anthony: what s that, the shank there? baron ambrosia: yeah, they re cutting meat off the shoulder. we re got to get that in there. anthony: oh yeah. it s it s amazing. it s amazing. baron ambrosia: big piece of chicharrón with the skin just chopped up. anthony: so, skin baron ambrosia: skin, fat. anthony: skin and fat? baron ambrosia:
baron ambrosia: the bronx is so multi-faceted, but for some reason, this is the first place i always take people because this just oozes and emanates, kind of, that flavor of the bronx. anthony: and he knows what i like places like this. 188 cuchifritos on 188th street and the grand concourse. old school new york puerto rican good stuff. get within 20 feet of this place and prepare to lose yo baron ambrosia: cuchifrito itself is basically fried pig. the ears, the tongue, chopped up and deep-fried. anthony: so off-cut pig parts, deep-fried? what s not to like about that? baron ambrosia: right. anthony: what s that, the shank there? baron ambrosia: yeah, they re cutting meat off the shoulder. we re got to get that in there. anthony: oh yeah. baron ambrosia: big piece of chicharrón with the skin just chopped up. anthony: so, skin baron ambrosia: skin, fat. anthony: skin and fat? baron ambrosia: yeah. it s almost like a little meat candy bar. anthony: it s
here you probably ain t seeing in central park. the garifuna come from honduras, guatemala, and belize, and they trace their ethnic group back to a single slave ship that crashed off . vincent, and whose freed africans then mixed with carib-indians. where is home for many of the garifuna community living in the u.s.? you guessed it, the bronx. baron ambrosia: living in the bronx you re able to, kind of, travel the world without leaving the borough. anthony: right. baron ambrosia: and, you know, it s like an addiction. when you go to another country, and that first day in the market anthony: yeah. baron ambrosia: and all your dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you re just looking around you re like, where s that one thing i m looking for? to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is anthony: cool. callita: we have a hudutu. that s coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. anthony: oh, that looks good. callita: smoked neck bone