"I think the motion is more like this," says Gutierrez, rocking it in a rough figure-eight motion. She confesses she uses a blender or small food processor, and Noz says she's going to list one on her ...

Ropa vieja is a dish long simmered. Sample that of Barbara Martinez, and it is as though the beef — shredded, tender — has been in its pot for three generations. And in a way, it has. Martinez, who ...

With one of the largest Latino populations in the country, Los Angles has long been a home for migrating and first-generation Mexican Americans, including the grandmothers, or abuelitas, who have kept ...