Old recipes can be like french fries and potato chips. One leads to another, then another and then another, and so on. Until you look up and find yourself in the bottom of a rabbit hole surrounded by ...

In bowl, combine rice, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and mix well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Heat vegetable oil for deep-frying to 360-degrees. Carefully drop rice mixture by ...

On the Nobility Scale of Lifelong Missions, saving a fried rice cake would seem to be somewhere south of, say, saving roll-on deodorant. But what if that fritter can make old men cry on first bite?

If I were a cala, I would be puffy and sweet, like a doughnut edged with crispness. You wouldn’t even know I was made of rice until the second or third bite, well on your way to the ninth or 10th, ...

calas (African rice fritters) :A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes Fro America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage,” by Greg Patent; Wiley; $34.95 Kelly Gorham Makes about 36 fritters This ...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA– There are few things in this world that can compare to the cuisine of Louisiana. It seems as though the Lord deliberated an especially long time (perhaps an hour or so) during ...

Finally, today is Mardi Gras, the last day of celebration before the solemn season of Lent, which starts tomorrow in the Western or Catholic calendar. Of course, we must speak of food because the day ...