D. Gonzalez

Not your usual plate of Porto's: Dulce de Leche Kisses

​There are always certain points a holiday parties. The point at which someone has had just enough to drink to say something catty about the person who just happens to be standing right behind them. Then there is the point of the party when someone walks in carrying those distinctive yellow boxes. The sign that the Porto's has arrived.

Is it a box of potato balls? Those guava filled refugiados? Maybe cheese rolls? When we are bearer of those coveted bakery boxes, while we make sure to bring those pastries that Porto's Bakery is most well known for, we also include our own favorite: the dulce de leche Kiss cookie.

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D. Gonzalez

Chichen Itza Restaurant's Sunday lechon stand

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There are no alarm clocks in our home in Merida. There is no need as it is located in one of the most enviable spots in the neighborhood, around the corner from the baker. The air wakes me up in Merida.

We get a special treat on Sunday, as the smell of fresh baked bread gives away to the aroma of Seville orange, garlic and pork melting into itself: lechon al horno. Lechon means "young pig." Al horno means "of the oven." And no one in the neighborhood has a bigger oven than the baker. Bollios in one hand and lechon in another, this is how traditions are born. A few months ago this Yucatecan breakfast tradition finally arrived in Los Angeles at a very proper home, Sundays 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Chichen Itza Restaurant in El Mercado la Paloma.

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