Popular Hispanic Food found in NYC
True or false: Tacos (as part of Mexican cuisine) are considered one of the most popular Hispanic foods in New York City.
What is True?
One of the Tenement Museum’s food-experience tours helps visitors explore 150+ years of immigrant food culture in the Lower East Side. True or false?
What is true?
Which famous Spanish artist, known for co-founding Cubism, has works like Les Demoiselles d’Avignon currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?
What is Pablo Picasso?
What’s one thing you should do when in a big city with lots of people?
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Which Broadway musical set in Washington Heights celebrates Dominican and Puerto Rican culture with songs like “96,000”?
What is In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda?
What is the name of the filled pastry or hand‐pie of Latin American origin — with variants from countries like Colombia, Argentina, or Peru — that is widely found in NYC and highlighted in “The Best Empanadas in NYC”?
What is an Empanada?
In its “Finding Home” tour, the Tenement Museum features a migrant family from which U.S. territory that established a large community on the Lower East Side?
What is Puerto Rico?
Name one country (besides Mexico) whose artists are included in MoMA’s Latin American and Caribbean art collections, e.g., in “MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of MoMA”.
What is Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, or Peru?
What should you wear to the NYC trip?
What is warm clothing?
What famous Latin music style mixes hip-hop and reggae was born in Puerto Rico and can be heard blasting from cars in NYC?
What is reggaeton?
What name is given to the Mexican dish of melted cheese and meat folded inside a tortilla and served with a dipping broth, that has become a viral food trend including in NYC?
What is quesabirria?
The Tenement Museum’s neighborhood tours describe the Lower East Side as once home to the largest such community in the mainland U.S. of which Hispanic/Latino group?
What is the Puerto Rican Community?
About how many works by artists from Latina America does the MoMA have?
What is more than 5,000?
When wanting to cross down a street what should you use?
What is a crosswalk?
Which Manhattan neighborhood, also known by its Spanish nickname “El Barrio”, has a Hispanic population of over 50% and is known historically for its Puerto Rican and Dominican communities?
What is East Harlem (Spanish Harlem) in Manhattan?
Name one Latin American dish (or food item) mentioned in NYC food guides that involves cornmeal or masa and is central to Latin food experiences in New York City.
What is Arepa?
The Tenement Museum is located in a neighborhood in Manhattan that was home to immigrants from many countries. Which neighborhood is this?
What is the Lower East Side?
Which Cuban-born artist, whose work is currently featured at MoMA, described his art as “an act of decolonization”?
What is Wifredo Lam?
What’s one thing to have on you during the trip?
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What is the name of the museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in East Harlem that focuses on Latin America and Caribbean art and was founded by Puerto Rican parents, educators and artists in 1969?
What is El Museo del Barrio?