- my dining companion is part of a more recent wave of immigrants. jamilka borges moved here from puerto rico in 2007 and began working in what was then a restaurant scene that was just getting started. - [indistinct singing] [cheers and applause] - you spent your whole life in puerto rico before you came here? - i did. i moved here, what, when i was 21, and, i don t know, pittsburgh is, like, really unique, like in the sense that everybody knows each other. it s such a small town that, like, here you know everyone, and it s really easy to make friends, and that made it easier. - what about culturally? how different? oh, cucumber salad? - cucumber salad. - beautiful. - it s very much like a really white town that you go to every single restaurant and, like, it s white males. people not even understanding, like, the relationship that we had as a country with puerto rico. like, no, i don t need a green card to work here, right?