arepa

On a recent weekday morning, he sold coffee and arepas to fellow delivery workers from Venezuela and Colombia outside a Chick-fil-A across the road from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena.

Other New Yorkers have opened their kitchens so migrant women could make arepas to sell.

I have also witnessed the profound discontent when arepas were discontinued from our menu, to the point of receiving threats of boycott from our regulars!

A double unit with kitchen items, including an arepa maker.

“As adults, we can last all day even with just an arepa, but with those kids, how do you tell a child there’s no food?”