Receta Moving to That Salsa Beat.

The very first time I went to a Mexican restaurant, the waiter asked, “Would you like to try salsa?” to which I replied, “No thank you, I’m not very good at dancing.”  Fortunately the person I was dining with yes to the request which changed the waiter’s confused expression into smile.  Until then, the only salsa I heard about or seen was on the dance floor, mainly at college when the clubs put on dances. The dance of originated around the mid-1800s, a combination of Cuban, Latin American Caribbean dances.  It became very in the Latino communities of New York in the 1940s where the style of dance hot, sultry and spicy.  Depending which community visited, there were different dance moves…