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Leonor Torres finds a sense of community and a way to preserve customs from Puerto Rico at El Flamboyan garden and its casita in the Bronx, but it almost gets destroyed.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3K3yUC0.

Growing up in Venezuela, Gyorgy Aponte played a makeshift version of baseball, “chapitas,” using bottle caps and a broom. With his family and baseball buddies dispersed around the world, he decides to pass on the custom to his son in Canada.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/37m6vKs.

Journalist Kalú Downey and her friend worried that Chilean teatime known as “la once” was fading, so they launched a social media project to celebrate it, only to discover deeper meanings behind the custom.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3v3ZIMX.

As the daughter of recent immigrants from Ecuador, Francis Gortaire didn’t get to have a traditional quinceañera when she turned 15. But, for her 30th birthday, she decided to host the quinceañera she never had and shared an important announcement with her community.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3x8n1bc.

Julián Meconetzin Rangel Sosa learned how to craft piñatas when he was a kid. So when he launched his own business, he also taught children in schools how to make them, passing the custom onto the next generation.
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An asadora — a woman grill master — in Argentina breaks into the male-dominated field of barbecuing, creating an entire movement.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/34V2nzO.