"My feverish obsession with making the best coquito took off
4 years ago. I had settled back in Nuyorico after a one year research stint in
Puerto Rico. New (once more) to my Puerto Rican community in New York, I set to
perfect the recipe of my foremothers. Scratch that. I set to one-up the Carmen
Aboy Valldejulis’s in my life, and claim my Puertoricanness amongst my new
Puerto Rican community. I would like to think that I succeeded in making the
best coquito. Anyone who has ever made coquito will try to prove me wrong, but
they are all just lying."
