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Tucked into the corner of the newly opened Market Line—a bazaar-like food court on New York City’s Lower East Side—is a Puerto Rican restaurant called Que Chevere. Translated from Spanish as “how fantastic,” Que Chevere peddles traditional Puerto Rican food, a cuisine that is overwhelmingly lacking in prominent representation in this city. This dearth of Puerto Rican food in New York is one of the main reasons why Michael Petrovitch and his daughter Lillian Quinones opened Que Chevere in the first place.  “I’ve been here all my life, [and] there’s no Puerto Rican restaurants near me,” Que Chevere’s culinary director...