“I want to be vegetarian,” she said. “But I don’t like tofu”. Smiling, I let her know that she didn’t have to eat anything she didn’t like, and that there was so much more available to her. We discussed her goals (eating healthier versions of foods she grew up with; doing this together with her mom and sister) and exchanged info. We talked a bit about traditional Puerto Rican diets, how they mirrored American Soul Food diets, and how she could still eat the foods she was used to without meat or …
