It seems strange to me, how such a beautiful meal could arise out of all this. A particular method of pre-cooking rice and beans and then sautéing them with oil, peppers, and onions, persisted through the utter devastation of a country, through the burning of banana fields and houses, through 41 years of life in the US, through an alcoholic husband, through divorce, through being a single mother making something like $18 an hour, through living alone. I guess that's part of the beauty of beautiful things. They find a way.
For the recipe, visit immigrantkitchens.blogspot.com. Lindsay Sterling can be reached at lindsay@lindsaysterling.com.
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