In the streets outside Brixton Village it is still possible to buy plantains and chicken feet.
As the sun rose, they sliced plantains to prepare tostones (twice-fried green plantains) and boiled gandules (pigeon peas) with rice.
Just beyond, the brightly-lit Santafereno dishes out cheap and hearty Colombian platanos (plantains) and bistecca (flash-grilled steaks).
As Spanish-language television blared out the news, they sat down to plates piled with shredded gouda cheese, plantains and stuffed cornbread patties.
It's serving only a limited menu in these days after the storm, but they are able to get Cuban steak and plantains.
Cuban standards like pulled meat and fried plantains are distant at Cocina de Lilliam, but the menu still relies on traditional, simple ingredients.
They sold rice and beans, of course, and fried plantains and cornmeal, but their specialty, for a long time, was fried pigeon meat.
After World War II brought waves of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York, he added yucca, plantains and pigeon peas to his product line.
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He told BBC News that while bananas and plantains also have limiting factors, they may be a good substitute for potatoes in certain locations.
The chimps' diet consists of bananas, potato leaves, sweet potatoes, plantains, coconuts, palm nuts and other fruits and vegetables, in addition to rice balls fortified with powdered milk.
"It was a program only for those who had money, " agreed Salvador Acosta, a peasant who for years struggled to survive by growing yucca and plantains.
"She's feeding her cold plantains, " she whispered in Spanish.
Opened in the summer of 2010, diners file in for a taste of her legendary tortilla soup, fried avocado tacos topped with a yogurt-dill sauce, or crispy fried plantains and black beans.
She spent all day making jams and cheeses, stewing batches of rich frijoles, killing chickens to put into her vats of tender arroz con pollo and frying long strips of plantains into crispy submission.
On a recent afternoon, Jean-Paul Tom, who works in finance, sat upstairs at the Arome deli on Broadway and happily recounted his lunch: fish, chicken, potatoes, sweet plantains, rice, lasagna and a single shrimp.
Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).
Winding through the hills, the surrounding forest enclosed the road in a verdant canopy, with roadside kiosks sprouting out of it to sell empanadas (meat and potato-filled fried pastries), mofongo (mashed plantains filled with meat and vegetables, served in savoury sauce) and beach towels bearing graphics of bikini-clad women.
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