National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on Sept. 15, and what is a celebration without delicious food? In San Diego, we’re very comfy with the dishes popular just on the other side of the border, but Mexico is a large and diverse country with other regional dishes that aren’t as well known in San Diego — and should be.

One of them is cochinita pibil. This is a traditional pork dish in Yucatán, a Mexican state located on the northern part of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf of Mexico. The dish is the essence of Yucatec Maya culture.

“Traditionally, we’d use the whole pig,” explained Raul Casillas, the new creative chef at Puesto restaurants. “You marinate the pork overnight, then you wrap it in banana leaves and bury it in a hot pit, where it slow cooks for hours.”

The marinade traditio

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