It’s crazy how they all could tel if the rice and beans were Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Dominican.
It has small nuances in how they cook up.
It all shouldve been one country on 3 islands like the original plan was (Antillean Federation) but the gringos had to come in and say fukk all that, yall finna be puppet states
Heres a decent breakdown
There is a lot of similarity and some disimilarity in Caribbean cuisine I found online:
Rice and different kinds of beans and grains are the main dishes.
Roast Pork is beloved by the three islands, but there are different nuances in their cooking.
There are differences in emphasis and
specifics.
Cubans cooked more Spaniard soups;
Congri, black beans mixed with rice is a Cuban specialty. Croquettes also. (This is wrong tho, Congri is more like rice and peas with black beans and arroz con frijoles is like a thick black bean paste with white rice on the side)
Dominicans have different breakfast, with delicious fried cheeses and mortadella (salami) plus spices;
Dominicans cook mangu, which is BOILED and mashed green plantains, Puerto Ricans, cook mofongo, which is green FRIED plantain mashed with garlic and baked
pork rings. Cubans do fufu which is the same basically as mangu but they throw in more bacon or pork cracklings
Dominicans have their own soup, Ajiaco, a mix of beefs and vegetables with spices.
Puerto Ricans are known for their alcapurrias, a fried mix of roots with some kind of meat within.
On a scale the most seasoning used is PR, then DR and Cuba is very light on spices (which pisses me off to no end but whatever)
Edit: I know about cuban desserts but not dr or pr desserts

probably the same shyt too
