Quotes about salsa (10 Quotes)


    We are hoping to have a spotlight segment where, if you know someone who makes the best salsa in Huntington, that person can come in and teach friends and family and anyone interested in their best-kept secret family recipe. Once you ask people to come in


    About five or six years ago, he started making salsa. I used to buy it, but I thought, 'I can do this,' ... We sell the salsa mix at the store, but I don't use that.

    Salsa now has more of a world appeal, and lucky for us, because we've been traveling the world, bringing the music to everywhere, garnering praise and finding great audiences, taking our music to different parts of the world and playing for all kinds of diverse audiences.

    Not that long ago the idea of making a burger with jalapenos on it would have been rejected because of its limited appeal. But things have changed dramatically in a fairly short time. Salsa is America 's favorite condiment, surpassing ketchup several years ago now, and Carl's Jr. has found success in recent years with a variety of spicy burgers, chicken sandwiches and breakfast burritos, so the time seemed right.


    Lopez showed up at City Hall, with Affleck in tow, for the formation of a new commission to attract Latino entertainment and media to the city. Lopez will be its honorary chairwoman. I never thought I'd be here next to such greats as salsa star Willie Colon and with the mayor of New York City here at City Hall, ... It's a real honor for me.

    Always mindful of their cultural history, Los Lobos jumped at the chance to record there, particularly since San Francisco, like their native Los Angeles, supports a sizeable Chicano (Mexican-American) populace. Well, it's more of a mixed Latino community, ... There's a lot of Mexicans, but there's also people from Latin America - Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hondurans and so on. There's an area called the Mission District, which is where they all live, that's pretty much the Latin side of town. They've always had a large Latin music scene up there, though it's more like salsa.

    I was basically just walking by a dance studio that was advertising salsa lessons, and I thought I'd go in and see what it was all about, ... I fell in love with the fox-trot, the tango, the waltz, the cha cha.

    It really started getting played in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s with Latin dances like the mambo, cha-cha-cha, samba, and bossa nova. Today, we have the salsa and meringue.




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