I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.

[She usually worked the front of the restaurant, which serves traditional Puerto Rican dishes - rice with chicken, rice with beans, soups, fried codfish cakes -] the food people grew up on or only get when they go to a restaurant, ... The things you remember eating as a child but you wouldn't make at home.

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.