What are some ways to incorporate southern food into Puerto Rican cooking?!

Question:

What are some ways to incorporate southern food into Puerto Rican cooking?

My boyfriend wants to open a restaurant but wants to have something new, which is obviously pretty hard now-a-days...He is Puerto Rican and from South Carolina and so I was thinking he could incorporate those two elements into amazing dishes.

Any ideas of dishes we could create that I could pitch to him?

Answers:

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I don't know much about Puerto Rican cooking, but the southern elements, especially in SC would be seafood, cornbread, vegetables, fried stuff (chicken, seafood, green tomatoes). i don't know if those can be substituted or combined ingredients?

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