said whoa, this is very good. give me more. using the tradition as a weapon that s what made us successful. anthony: at a local beach in loiza, about 45 minutes outside san juan, a crab shack that is one of his favorites. pedro: oh my god, look at that. excellent. anthony: what do we have here land crab? pedro: land crab, this is a coconut arepa. anthony: what do you think, just bang the [ bleep ]? pedro: yeah just knock it open like a lobster, there you go, you see? anthony: ahh there we go. pedro: they are very sweet the meat. they just leave it a few weeks in the cage. feed it with grains to take away the flavor of the mangrove. anthony: why did you think sausage? pedro: i had the experience as a chef in puerto rico. i knew the necessity that there was in the restaurant for good quality sausages. so i put my little kitchen to make the experiment and i worked well with that. anthony: where were they getting their sausage before you? pedro: yeah from the moun
everything. anthony: so where are we? pedro: we are in loiza. after the liberation of the slave of the island this is where all the africans and slaves get together and established themselves. anthony: despite, or maybe because of economic turmoil, pedro alvarez- cortez saw an opportunity to make something. pedro: we keep working the formula until my grandmother said whoa, this is very good. give me more. using the tradition as a weapon that s what made us successful. anthony: at a local beach in loiza, about 45 minutes outside san juan, a crab shack that is one of his favorites. pedro: oh my god, look at that.
economically viable. agriculture, manufacturing, trade have all shrunk drastically. the island is dependent on us exports for just about everything. anthony: so where are we? pedro: we are in loiza. after the liberation of the slave of the island this is where all the africans and slaves get together and established themselves. anthony: despite, or maybe because of economic turmoil,
pedro alvarez- cortez saw an opportunity to make something. pedro: we keep working the formula until my grandmother said whoa, this is very good. give me more. using the tradition as a weapon that s what made us successful. anthony: at a local beach in loiza, about 45 minutes outside san juan, a crab shack that is one of his favorites. pedro: oh my god, look at that. excellent. anthony: what do we have here land crab? pedro: land crab, this is a coconut arepa. anthony: what do you think, just bang the [ bleep ]? pedro: yeah just knock it open like a lobster, there you go, you see? anthony: ahh there we go. pedro: they are very sweet the meat. they just leave it a few weeks in the cage.
each year they have a festival featuring these characters. raul is legendary in the community for making the masks. in the spanish tradition, remember, it represents the moors. because the moors invaded spain for eight centuries. that was a time of war between them and they tried to get them out. okay. they didn t like them for two reasons. you re muslim and you re not our people. uh-huh. they use a grotesque mask and costume with wings because the spaniard had to represent the moors in a bad way for them. and here in loiza, they make all the masks for the vigilantes. the masks have a long history. back in spain in the 1500s they had festivals celebrating the defeat of the black muslim moors by the white christian spanish.