Food and culture converge in Puerto Rico at legendary la Ruta del Lechón. Located along Road 184 in the mountain town of Cayey, the “Pork Highway” has earned cult status among locals and travelers alike. As the name implies, la Ruta del Lechón is known for its abundance of lechoneras, which are rustic, open-air roadside restaurants that specialize in slow-roasting whole pigs over hot charcoal. The Taínos, who are the original Indigenous people of the Caribbean, called this type of low and slow cooking barbacoa, which is where the word…
