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January 2016 A Cultural Publication for Puerto Ricans Christmas in Puerto Rico is the longest Christmas and revolves mainly around the spirit of giving and merry making. Puerto Rican yuletide traditions have their roots from the Spanish colonial era. The Misa de Gallo, for example, is a pre-dawn mass celebrated during the nine days preceding Christmas. On Christmas Eve, the final Christmas mass is celebrated with much ceremony, color and lights. The midnight mass on Christmas Eve with its rituals dates back to the period when mass was still said in Latin. It is also customary for Boricua families to sit down to a feast on Christmas Eve after the Christmas Eve mass. Called the Noche Buena, the feast is in part a thanksgiving for the blessings of the year past, as well as a prayerful feast for a prosperous year to come. But Christmas doesn’t end on Christmas Day. There are Los Reyes Magos to celebrate! The evening of January 5th is known as The eve of Los Reyes (much like YOUR AD Christmas eve). There are parties and parrandas everywhere. That night our children find shoe boxes and add grass for the camels to eat and a wish list for Los Reyes. In the morning the boxes are full of gifts, many don’t even fit in the shoe boxes of course. It is a whole new Christmas- like day again. FITS HERE But the holidays don’t stop there. There are the ‘octavas’ and ‘octavitas’. Festivities begin on January 9th (after the last of the Kings days) and last for eight days. Originally these were more religious in nature and were used to glorify the Reyes and the Christ child. Coplas were dedicated to the magi. Copa: "Se fueron los Reyes con mucha Index Page alegría, vienen las octavas - Dios nos de salud para celebrarlas." Credits 2 Octavitas began right after the Octavas and were eight more days of Puerto Rican Poets 2 continued adoration. These were a prelude to la Cuaresma (lent). Puerto Rican Poets 3 Taínos - Calendar 4 Felíz Día de Reyes! Diego el Tavernero/ Poemas Riqueños 5 Primos/El Salvador 6 Food Blogs – Velez/Jaime in the Kitchen 7 Siempre Boricua, Ivonne Figueroa 8 Nuestra Cocina Criolla More recipes 9 Art and Betty Nieves-Ilyas Column 10 JANUARY 2016 JANUARY 2016 EL BORICUA PAGE 2 He is widely known as Ed Vega. His novels have been bestsellers and he has taught C R E D I T S others the basics of writing. Ed was born in 1936 in ©1995-2016 Ponce and he died in 2008 in All articles and photos are the property of Brooklyn, New York. of the writer or photographer. Edgardo's novel gained great reviews. Recommended books are: No Matter How Staff Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Ivonne Figueroa Executive Editor & Gen. Mgr. Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Edgardo Vega Yunqué Never Coming Home Again, Javier Figueroa and Blood Fugues. Publisher He wrote with a Spanglish form that no one since has been able to master. Much Anna María Vélez de Blas, Chef respect and honor belongs to Recipe Tester and Writer Edgardo Vega Yunqué. Jaime Garibay Rivera, PhD Jaime in the Kitchen, Food Blog Poet, dramaturg, essayist and writer . Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican Guillermo ‘Don Guillo’ Andares, PhD literature and as the person who has Gardening Tips for Puerto Ricans contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature. Elena Cintrón Colón Primos Editor Born: November 12, 1826, San Juan, Puerto Diego Matos Dupree Rico. Died: July 19, 1882, San Juan, Puerto Tavernero Rico. Joe Román Santos Travel Editor Books: Enardo and Rosael: An Allegorical Lisa Santiago Brochu, Chef Novella. Alejandro Tapia y Restaurant Reviews Rivera Luisa Yaliz Alaniz Cintrón, MD Guest Writer Betty Nieves-Ilyas Guest Writer Piri Thomas Sally Rubio Canales Combining poetry, Guest Writer documentary and drama, this film explores the life and Support Staff work of Piri Thomas, 75- year-old Afro-Cuban-Puerto Fernando Alemán Jr - Web Consultant Rican poet and author. His José Rubén de Castro -Photo Editor 1967 autobiographical novel María Yisel Mateo Ortiz -Development "Down These Mean Streets" was groundbreaking in its bilingual style, realistic Special Thanks to . portrayal of youth, Tayna Miranda Zayas of MarkNetGroup.com imprisonment, and the search for racial identity. There are three Puerto Rico's you need to learn EL BORICUA is a monthly cultural publication, about; the old, the new and the natural. Learn about established in 1995, that is Puerto Rican owned and our little terruño. Subscribe to EL BORICUA, a monthly cultural publication for Puerto Ricans. operated. We are NOT sponsored by any club or organization. Our goal is to present and promote our "treasure" which is our Cultural Identity - “the Puerto http://www.elboricua.com/subscribenow.html Rican experience.” EL BORICUA is presented in English and is dedicated to the descendants of Puerto Ricans wherever they may be. JANUARY 2016 EL BORICUA PAGE 3 Rosario Ferré Dr. Rosario Ferré (born September 28, 1938) is a Puerto Rican writer, poet and essayist. Her father, Luis A. Ferré, was the third elected Governor of Puerto Mayra Santos-Febres, born 1966 in Carolina, is a Rico, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party. When her mother, Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist and professor of Lorenza Ramírez de Arellano, died in 1970 during her father's term as literature. Works include: Sobre piel y papel, orden Governor, Rosario fulfilled the duties of First Lady until 1972. escapado and more. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Puerto Among her published literary essays is "Sitio a Eros", which promoted political Rico and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) and social themes. from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into French, English, German, Rosario Ferré (birth name: Rosario Ferré Ramírez de Arellano) was born and Italian, and is taught in many universities in in Ponce, Puerto Rico, into one of Puerto Rico's wealthiest families. Her parents the United States. Santos-Febres currently teaches were the former First Family of Puerto Rico Luis A. Ferré (Governor) and at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Lorenza Ramírez de Arellano She is the niece of the late Sor Isolina Ferré, Campus. Her more recent publications include a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. collection of essays called Sobre piel y papel and also a novel about Isabel la Negra titled Nuestra Ferré received her primary education at Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 1951, she was Señora de la Noche (Our Lady of the Night). sent to Wellesley, Massachusetts and attended Dana Hall School. Wikipedia Ferré began writing professionally at age 14, publishing articles in Puerto Rico's newspaper El Nuevo Día. Speaking Puerto Rican . In her youth, Ferré was an advocate of independence, despite the fact that her Refrán . father was pro-statehood (and, later, she too became an advocate of AEl lo camino loco - Literally, malo se 'like anda crazy', ligero. or done without statehood.) Upon graduating from high school she went to the United States much care. where she gained her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and French from Manhattanville College. She is a member of Mu Alpha Phi sorority. Ferré returned to Puerto Rico where in the 1970s she enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico to study for her master's degree. During her time as a student, Ferré began her writing career as the founder, editor and publisher of the journal "Zona de Carga y Descarga" along with her cousin, Olga Nolla. The journal was devoted to publishing the works of new writers and to promoting the ideas of the independence movement. Among the novelists and short story writers of Puerto Rico to share Ferré's commitment to satire were Ana Lydia Vega and Giannina Braschi. http://www.elboricua.com/CCNOW_Calderos.html Ferré also has published poems and written a biography about her father. Upon earning her master's degree, Ferré enrolled in University of Maryland where she graduated with a PhD in Latin American Literature. BORICUA . is a powerful word. Her doctoral thesis was titled: "La filiación romántica de los cuentos de Julio It is our history, Cortázar" (The romantic link between the stories of Julio Cortázar). it is our cultural affirmation, it is a declaration, it is a term of endearment, it is poetic . Wikipedia . it is us. JANUARY 2016 EL BORICUA PAGE 4 January 2, Manuel Elzaburu, founder of El Ateneo 1851 Puertorriqueño, is born in San Juan January 6 Día de Reyes Cultural Traits January 6, José Campeche, known as the island's first 1751 painter, was born in San Juan. Raised staple crops of cassava and sweet potatoes, and to a lesser extent corn and other starchy plants, often using extensive fields with soil January 8, José Ferrer Cintrón - successful actor and heaped in mounds for planting called conucos. 1912 producer, born in San Juan. January 10, Amassed quantities of storable meats by methods such as smoking and 1973 Félix"Tito" Trinidad - birthday drying fish, iguanas, or saltwater crocodiles. January 9, Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier - Politician, Wore no real clothing except a below-the-waist apron worn by married 1899 Co-founder of the Partido Popular women. Democrático and mayor of San Juan for 22 years, is born in Ceiba Designed their skin with dyes, pierced their ears and noses for January 11, Eugenio María de Hostos y Bonilla, born in ornaments, flattened their foreheads by binding babies' heads. 1839 Mayagüez, an educator who became involved in politics.
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