Rita Morena

What makes actress and singer Rita Moreno want to dance? Watch as she shows her friend, Lidia Bastianich, one of her favorite childhood dishes from Puerto Rico, a Picadillo recipe she makes herself when she has guests.

Rita Moreno arrived to New York City from Puerto Rico as a young child, and she said it was really quite unfriendly at that time.

The Hollywood of Rita's youth was somewhat tainted by an image that producers, writers and directors had in their mind of what young Hispanic or black women were about – "We were really stuck in that box" – But in Rita's late twenties, she played for the first time a non-cliche Hispanic for West Side Story as Anita. She won a an Oscar for that role!