Tired of spending countless hours peeling plantains?

Plantain-peeling happens in a JIFFY with the NEW...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/dining/01peel.html

I saw this too and thought it an interesting article. However, what really caught my eye was reference to the inventor making steak sandwiches where fried green plantains stood in for bread. I though, jibarito; wasn't that invented in Chicago? At Borinquen? (My skeptical side says there were probably Puerto Ricans eating these sandwiches in their kitchens in NYC before we had the "jibarito" in Chicago, but I would love to be wrong about that.) Anyway, finally arriving at my tangent, I checked wikipedia for the definitive answer. Only to find that there is no entry for jibarito. Which leads me to ask: First, should someone here (JeffB?) create an entry before New York claims it? Second, does anyone know of a reliable on-line source like wikipedia that focuses on food?

kl5 wrote:Second, does anyone know of a reliable on-line source like wikipedia that focuses on food?

Yep. Wikipedia.

I once started working with the idea of creating an online food-oriented wiki and came to the conclusion that wikipedia was light years ahead of any work that I could hope to undertake.

They don't have an entry for jibarito, but that's not stopping anyone from creating one. They do mention the jibarito as a dish popular in Chicago on the "Puerto Rican Cuisine" page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Puerto_Rico

Best,
Michael

I remember researching the origins of the jibarito about a year ago, and the most convincing source (in my opinion) came from here, which shares the Borinquen story.

http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues ... h-en.shtml

Binko wrote:I remember researching the origins of the jibarito about a year ago, and the most convincing source (in my opinion) came from here, which shares the Borinquen story.

http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues ... h-en.shtml

Good article, thanks for the link.

Wikipedia is very good for general information, as noted.

There is also a wiki cookbook that is part of Wikibooks, a sister site to Wikipedia.