At this tuneful, lively festival — sponsored by the organization that runs the immense Puerto Rican Day Parade on Fifth Ave. — this table caught my curiosity, and one of the ladies there caught me looking.
"Alcapurrias," she told me, and I recognized them soon enough, once I saw them through from beginning to end. Typically, when they're stacked in the windows of frituras joints, staying warm under lightbulbs, alcapurrias have a much rounder "torpedo" shape. The ladies of "Esté Es El Rincón Boricua" make their alcapurrias ($2) one at a time, piling ground beef on a paste of guineo and white yautia, then using the back of a spoon to seal them, so no surprise that the shape is less regular. Two nice surprises, though: After mine had been carefully pried from its plate, deep-fried, and drained, I found that the shell was thinner than your average fritura, and the filling had the pleasant oiliness of a good sloppy joe.
Festival Cultural de la Calle 152
152nd St. between Jackson and Union avenues, Bronx
www.NationalPuertoRicanDayParade.org
Late May
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