Salsa Lizano protein, sodium benzoate. Many Costa Rican dishes are prepared with Salsa Lizano, and it is ubiquitous on restaurant tables in its country of origin. It is commonly used with gallo pinto and tamales, and is also considered particularly complementary with eggs, rice, beans, fish, cheese, curries, and as a marinade for meat. Salsa Lizano is increasingly available commercially throughout North America through online retailers. The first USA importer was Costa Rican Store in 2003. Lizano and Costa Rican Store worked together to bring containers of Lizano to the USA. Salsa Lizano Salsa Lizano, ("salsa" means "sauce" in Spanish), is a
Cuban Spanish to the Venezuelan, Cuban, Costa Rican, Dominican, and Colombian dialects. The suffix "-ero" is often used with a place name to refer to a person from that place; thus "habanero", "guantanamera", etc. A person from Santiago de Cuba is "santiaguero" (compare "santiagués" "from Santiago de Compostela (Spain)", "santiaguino" "from Santiago de Chile"). "Wh"-questions, when the subject is a pronoun, are usually not inverted. Where speakers of most other varieties of Spanish would ask "¿Qué quieres?" or "¿Qué quieres tú?", Cuban speakers would more often ask "¿Qué tú quieres?" (This form is also characteristic of Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish.) In